by Susan Cover, Kennebec Journal
November 6, 2008
Maine attorney and State House lobbyist Severin Beliveau said watching Sen.
Barack Obama's acceptance speech Tuesday in Chicago is now at the top of his
list of awe-inspiring political memories.
"The symbolism of being in Grant Park, when I was there 40 years ago, is just
indescribable," he said by phone from Chicago on Wednesday.
In 1968, Grant Park was the site of riots outside the Democratic National
Convention. At the time, Beliveau was the 29-year-old chairman of the Maine
Democratic Party.
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