of a national theater, and i was the middle man on this, and he said -- he said while he was not mrpolitic, and if we were a partisan or non-partisan group which we were he would consider speaking and that was, in fact, and after lunch he said a few things about the playhouse. he said i'm not political, so it's strange for me to be here, and they thought, i would go anywhere and do anything to prevent richard nixon from being elected to anything. at that point, we were up in the office looking down on the white house and you would expect a missile silo to open up or lightning to come down. and i think he thought this would have a great effect on the group, but i think he thought there would be a rendering of garments. so somebody said is that because of vietnam? he said no, i hate the war, but i think we should be there and nixon is getting us out as fast as can be done. this was in '72 and it was in the spring of '72 and someone said, it's the economy. he thought for a minute and he said no -- i don't like the way things are going, but i don't think the president has that much effect on t

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