i was reading said gore vidal critique and he complained the united states would bankrupt itself because they would spend $8 billion per year there now spending $125 billion per year. but on the other hand, at least the elected president has the different idea how he wants to run afghanistan from our idea. president karzai has a traditional patrimony hillview, friends, enemies hillview, friends, enemies, work through his brother, a tribal chief, and what do we do? we contradict him to tell him you cannot have the police chief, not that governor, at your brother is a drug lord, if this is nonsense. the recreated relationship spending $125 billion per year theoretic the supporting the country but at the same time have humiliated, undermined, micr omanage . manager and alienate him so he is now in a paranoid state criticizing the strategy undermining our appointments. we should be doing but you trust him and support him and delegate and let him run it as he wants to run it. and if not get rid of them but the worst is to keep running for elections while undermining him. but the centocor is n

i told them about some of the people that they were studying in school, that i'd interviewed gore vidal, that i'd been part of helping write a state of the union speech. when tommy came back from taking these kids home, he said, "my friends said, your aunt knows good stuff." from then on they really kind of invited me to tell more things, and we started a live poets society -- of course, i don't want a dead poets society, i'm too close to that edge -- but a live poets society we started. these kids are big in words. i think we've got a lot of good english teachers out in the country. they study jack kerouac; they all keep journals. today's young people keep journals, and i think that again shows something about a way that they are isolated because they are pouring out their feelings into a journal. c-span: you point out that for the first time in your life you read jack kerouac. >> guest: i did. he wasn't my kind of galahad. that seven league boots, richard halliburton was my hero. it made me want to travel to see the taj mahal by moonlight and swim the hellespont. that is the same kind