Well, I come from an odd combination of talents. Although my father was a moderate Conservative who supported Ike, my mother was a demonstrating Socialist in her youth, a liberal all her life, and drove the family station wagon to Mississippi in the early Sixties to assist voter registration during the peak of the civil rights movement.

So I grew up respecting individual freedom and dignity and rights, while also honoring the brilliance of good organization, production and management. Sigh. Of course, there is no place in the world for such as I.


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