I Wasn't Part Of John Kennedy's Vision

One-hundred Facts About Vietnam And We Studied The Fact Sheet And Got In To These Arguments And It Was Fantastic, And I Remember One Moment When We Heard Two Students Saying Don't Talk To Those Guys, Meaning My Brother And Me. They've Just Memorized That Stupid Fact Sheet. And We Thought, Gosh Do We Sound That Good? It Didn't Seem Possible. But That Was My Introduction To Politics.

Something About The Fact That An African American Had, Given The Long Sad History Of Our Country, Now Become President - That Was Exhilarating.

I Knew Barack Obama, Absolutely. And I Knew Him Probably As Well As Thousands Of Other Chicagoans.

The Idea That You Live Your Life In Phases - I've Never Bought That. I Feel Like I'm The Same Person Who Sat In At The Draft Board In 1965, I'm The Same Person Who Joined A Fraternity, I'm The Same Person Who Got An Mfa At Bennington, And I'm The Same Person Who Founded Weather Underground. My Values Are Still Intact.

I'm Different In The Sense That Every Minute Of Every Day, I Change. I'm Thinking. But The Basic Principles That Have Powered Me Forward Are Still There. They're Not Different.