Tom Davis
CommentatorBorn in 1931, the son of Gov. Deane Davis and grandson of a State Treasurer, former Secretary of Human Services Tom Davis served Vermont under governors Hoff and Salmon, directed Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Burlington office, and represented New England for the US Department of Labor. In a recent series of interviews with producer/writer Mark Greenberg, Tom recalls some of the people he encountered during past political events and campaigns, and reflects on the changes he’s seen in a country and state that are radically different from the one he entered 85 years ago.
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I came in with FDR in 1931, probably much to the chagrin of some of the family. Everybody was a Republican other than one or two Democrats. But Barre was…
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It was the summer of 1952. I drove from my home in Barre to Chelsea Vermont to look at the used cars being sold by a guy named Kennedy. Word on the street…
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My friend Ed Granai and I were nine years old when we decided that we needed campaign buttons promoting either Wendell L. Willkie or the incumbent,…