Well, Politics Is War, And In War,

I Got Into Writing And Thinking About Politics Because I Was Told There Would Be No Math.

More Things In Politics Happen By Accident Or Exhaustion Than Happen By Conspiracy.

I Grew Up In New York City, Where We Played Highly Unorganized Sports: Stick Ball, Stoop Ball, And The Occasional Game Of Baseball With No Adult Supervision.

Television Is One Of The Most Fickle Businesses That There Are, You Are In Favour One Minute And Out The Next.

A Citizen At His Home In Rockford, Illinois, Or Boulder, Colorado, Could Read A Newspaper, Listen To A Radio, Or Watch The Round-the-clock Coverage On Television, But He Had No Way Of Connecting With Those Who Shared His Views. Nor Was There A Quick, Readily Available Tool For An Ordinary Citizen To Gather Information On His Own. In 1960, Communication Was A One-way Street, And Information Was Fundamentally Inaccessible. The Whole Idea Of Summoning Up Data Or Reaching Thousands Of Individuals With The Touch Of A Finger Was A Science-fiction Fantasy.