We Have Arguments [with My Father] And

I Wasn't Part Of John Kennedy's Vision Of The World, Or Lyndon Johnson's. I Thought Of Them As Anti-communist Imperial Monsters.

The President Of The University Said That Night, Congratulations To You The Students, You've Won A Great Victory, Now The War Will End. And I'm Certain That He Believed It That Night And I Believed It And We Went Away Happy. Four Days Later, Martin Luther King Was Assassinated. Two Months After That, Kennedy Was Assassinated. Two Months After That, Henry Kissinger Emerged From The Swamp He Was Living In At Harvard With A Plan To Expand The War.

There Was A Sense Of Palpable Relief That George [w.] Bush Was Leaving And That The Republicans Had Slipped Back And That Was A Wonderful Feeling.

The [vietnam] War's Gone On For Three Years. And We'd Thought We'd Ended It Because We'd Done Exactly What We Were Told And What We Told Ourselves We'd Had To Do. We Had A Majority. We Were Against The War And This Created A Crisis For Democracy And A Crisis For The Antiwar Movement.

Part Of The Fun Of Writing, Touring, Teaching, Is Engaging With Real People About All Of It: What To Do Now, How To Build A Movement, Of Approaches To Teaching, Of Parenting - It's Exciting To Be In That Dialogue.