Debra Oaks Coe: True leadership includes courage and integrity

The summer of 1972, before my junior year of high school, we were living in Alexandria, Va., just two miles from George Washington’s Mount Vernon. In the shadow of this historic place, my classmates and I were unusually interested politics and the current presidential election. The voting age had recently changed from 21 to 18, the Vietnam War and the draft were still on.With great excitement I took a bus to downtown Washington, D.C., and volunteered at the national headquarters for the Re