[students For A Democratic Society]

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.

Being An Activist And An Artist - Those Two Things Should Go Together. You Should Allow The Artistic Sensibility To Control Some Of Your Activism, But Never Should It Be Allowed To Paralyze You.

Your Body's Always Going Through Changes. It's Fattening Or Thinning Or Wrinkling Or Blotching, And The Only Thing You Really Have Control Over Is Putting Some Decoration On It.

The Fact Is That In My Prep School, I Went To A Boarding School, 39 Young Men Graduated From That Prep School. Five Years Later, A Quarter Of Us Were In Sds, In Students For Democratic Society. Not Because We Were Particularly Chosen Or Because We Were As I Say, We Were Lucky But We Were Mainly Luckily To Grow Up At A Time Where This Black Freedom Movement Was Really Defining The Moral Character Of What It Meant To Be A Citizen And A Person.

So We Were Ecstatic And We Swirled Around Spontaneously, The Campus In Ann Harbor And About 4,000 Of Us Landed On The Steps Of The President Of The University Of Michigan's Home.