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Speech to Harvard Alumni Association

October, 2009   Civic Virtue: Signs of Life in an Age of Low Expectations               Thank you for inviting me here today.  I get good vibes from this room. My wife and I had our wedding reception here a few years ago. Congratulations for keeping Arpad in the money.             I spent 40 years in […]

Contemplations on War, Freedom, and Guilt

            July, 2010                 The bumper sticker in front of me was troubling on so many levels. I haven’t been able to shake either the contradictory emotions I felt or my need to respond somehow.                                             “My son is a soldier in Iraq. Enjoy your freedom”               How frightening it must be to know […]