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Former Congressman Norm Dicks, a one-time legislative assistant to Senator Warren Magnuson, talks about how the legislation for lowering the voting age came to be drafted. Dicks discusses the dilemma between drafting is as a stand-alone constitutional amendment or as an amendment to the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He discusses some of the objections that civil rights leaders expressed about its inclusion in the VRA, its quick passage through Congress, and the Supreme Court's negative decision about its constitutionality.
