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IF DAN WHITE hadn't crawled in that side window of San Francisco City Hall packing a .38, Harvey Milk would be celebrating his 65th birthday on Monday. For many who knew him, it's still hard to imagine he's dead. It's harder to imagine him as a senior citizen.
"It would have been interesting to see him as a 65-year-old man," said his friend and former aide, Dick Pabich. "We always see John F. Kennedy as a 46-year-old, not as the old man he'd be today."
But 65 isn't so old, and Milk would be carded whenever he asked for a senior's fare on a bus. That is, when he left the Town Car at City Hall.
Had Milk lived, he could be a former mayor of San Francisco, or finishing his second term. We could have had Moscone and Kopp eras, a Milk era and no Feinstein era at all. It's not far-fetched, given the era we're in.
Milk's friend Jim Rivaldo said: "Actually, in my last conversation with him the day before he died, he said he had scoped out that '83 would be his year. Kopp would run in '79, and then he would be the progressive alternative to Quentin Kopp."
Former Mayor Art Agnos agreed: "He would...