profound understanding of the nation where there wouldn't be leaders. And when you look at it, if you look at the leader, you're missing the point. The leader is an artifice. He's responding to the country. Look at the country. Not the president. You'll understand what is happening. But if you personalize it, then it's simply win by the president. And presidents don't survive and win. No other leaders, but dictators either. They have to respond or they can't rule. When you went to Cornell, when you went to college, did you already know what you wanted to study? Did you already know what you were interested in? Well, as an undergraduate at City College in New York, I studied political science. When I went to college, I studied political philosophy. Political philosophy led me to Marxism. And I was not a Marxist, but wrote a book on my dissertation on Herbert Marcuse and how sexuality intersected with politics. It was a very pleasant book. It was insane. I went to Cornell and I met (10/44)
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