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person whom I respected. When he was at the University of Chicago and when he was with the Nixon Administration I could sit down and talk with him. But I don't feel that I really ever had the opportunity. I went to a conference on foreign affairs and heard him talk. I was sitting in the front row. We knew each other. And he looked at me and I looked at him and it was clear to me that even after his talk that we weren't going to get a chance to-- you know, explicits. I knew he recognized me. I was one of the few blacks, I think there were only about two or three blacks in that room. But I also knew that maybe it was just as well that he didn't.

But I would certainly like to be able to talk to somebody like that to find out what are the things that they see clearly that I don't see clearly. I would like to sit down sometimes and talk with some of the people in the Justice Department. Not Pendleton, because I really think that Pendleton is a seriously disturbed man.

I guess what I'm trying to say to you is that the one thing that I am seeing clearly in myself is that I am confused, and if I were younger, I would welcome the opportunity to try to clarify my confusion. I may be too old for that, when you consider that I don't have enough time to have some of my confusion clarified. I am very perplexed and I do not have the answers. I do not even know where the answers are to be found.

I've been reading these books in preparation for the Robert Kennedy Book Award. Fascinating books. But the common