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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.

One Of The Things That Happened That I Think Is Noteworthy, My Parents Were Pretty Tolerant People Given Their Position In Society. They Were Pretty Interesting About Being Interesting Able To Look At Their Children And Think Oh My Children Know Things And They Gave Us A Lot Of Sense Of Our Own Agency, And That May Be A Kind Of A Ruling Class Trait.

The End Of Students For A Democratic Society Is Viewed By Me And A Lot Of Other People As A Terrible Sorry In Many Ways, Tragic Event Even Though I Participated In It And Played Some Role In It. But I Regret A Lot Of That.

Now In My View, If You Were To Line Up The Presidents In The Order Of Who Made The Greatest Accomplishments, You'd Put Lyndon Johnson In That Arena With Both Roosevelts Probably, And [abraham] Lincoln And So On. But The Idea That Lyndon Johnson Was Operating As A Free Agent And Coming Up With These Ideas On His Own Is Nonsense.

Living In A Bubble As I Said In A Featherbed Of Privilege. That's Why Leaving Home, Leaving The Prep School And Going To The University Of Michigan In The Early '60s Was A Moment Of Awakening And To Go To A Place Like Michigan And To See Suddenly A World In Flames And The Injustices All Around Was Quite A Wake Up Call. I Lasted A Year And A Half At Michigan Before I Dropped Out And Joined The Merchant Marines And I Was A Merchant Marine For My Sophomore Year Then I Came Back To Michigan.