I Was A Good Liberal In Some

I Suffer From A Genetic Flaw, Which Is That My Mother Was A Hopeless Pollyanna.

If You Were Against Slavery In 1840 And A White Person, You Would Have Been Against The Law, The Bible, Your Church, Your Pastor, Your Parents, Common Sense, Tradition, Everything. You Would Have Been Against Everything.

I Wish I Knew As Much About Anything Today As I Knew About Everything When I Was Twenty.

When I Was Young, Communism, Which Had A Certain Allure To Me, Was Clearly A Failed Experiment In The Soviet Union And In China. And Yet, Anti-communism Was As Bad.

I Was Arrested 1965. I Had Come Back From The Merchant Marines, Got Into Conversations About The War. I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam Until I Was In The Merchant Marines In Constitution Square In Athens, And I Picked Up The New York Herald Or The International Herald Tribune And There Was My First Introduction Of The Word Vietnam.