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This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

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When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Adjustment Gone
“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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Easy Hated
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Confident
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons
There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
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Political
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.
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Real
I dropped out in ’64. And I came back to Michigan, in ’65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

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I dropped out in ’64. And I came back to Michigan, in ’65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
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Dropped Heard
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Minorities
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

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Should
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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Inevitable
So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.

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So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
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Eisenhower Moderate Republican
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.

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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.
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White
The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.
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Media
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating
In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn’t can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?

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In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn’t can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?
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Balance This World
I’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.
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