I Knew Barack Obama, Absolutely. And I

[students For A Democratic Society] Was On Many Campuses And It Was A Powerful Organization. It Was Founded By Tom Hayden, Who Passed Away Very Recently. It Was One Of The Founders Of Sds And That Chief Writer Of The Port Huron Statement, Which Is Still Worth Reading. It's Kind Of The Bernie Sanders Campaign Document In A Funny Way.

Martin Luther King Was Only An Activist For 13 Years And Every Year He Changed And Every Year He Became More Radical. By The End He Was Calling For Revolution. People Don't Know This Because They Go To Too Many Prayer Breakfasts On His Birthday.

I Think That You're Smarter Than We Were, But We Had Two Things: One Is, In Our Naïveté We Believed We Could Change The World. And Number Two, We Believed That Another World Was Possible. And Once That Belief Took Hold Of Some Critical Mass, A Tiny Minority Nonetheless, But A Critical Mass Of People, Then The World Did Change.

The Responsibility For The Risks We Posed To Others In Some Of Our Most Extreme Actions In Those Underground Years Never Leaves My Thoughts For Long. The Antiwar Movement In All Its Commitment, All Its Sacrifice And Determination, Could Not Stop The Violence Unleashed Against Vietnam. And Therein Lies Cause For Real Regret.

I Think Bowe Bergdahl, If He Deserted, Is A Hero - I Think Throughout History We Should Build Monuments To The Unknown Deserters.