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Clark:

I don't want to call people names. I don't care. I just wonder when are we going to be able to control man's inhumanity, and barbarity, and cruelty toward his fellow man. The sooner we do that the more stable human society will be. Not in my life time.

Q:

Can you think of any other topic that you've not gone in to or that you would like to add to that we've discussed?

Clark:

No, I told you many interviews ago that I get tired of hearing myself talk. I went up to the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation award ceremony the weekend of--was it Gloria[?]? When they gave me my medal for freedom of speech the only thing I could say--I was supposed to give a talk in response, but I spoke for a minute or two and the essence of what I said was that I thought that freedom of speech and freedom of thought were as essential to human progress and development of human values as oxygen was to the survival of the human organism, or to living organisms. But I guess there comes a time when you say, “Oh, I've had enough oxygen,” or, “I've talked enough.” Okay?

Q:

Anything else you want to say about the crystal ball?

Clark:

No, I--

Q:

You've done this in a response to a number of questions.

Clark:

Yes. The crystal ball for me is fuzzy enough for me not to





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