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No. When I was in Jamaica, I was there to rest, recuperate and to block out even the more obvious signs of social instability and injustice.
Now, that's possible, then. And I tell you, by God, at least for a week or two, you can cut off your antennas, your sensitivity. My wife says that I couldn't do it, retired there. And she's probably right.
Just to get it on the record at this point, and perhaps pick this up later, but what other countries have you visited, either recreationally or for social studies?
I'll tell you, as far as I can remember -- certainly, many of the West Indian islands. Trinidad. Barbados. The Virgin Islands. Bermuda, Jamaica.
Europe -- well, of course, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands.
I have not visited, deliberately not visited Germany, although I'm scheduled to give a lecture in Munich this coming spring, a lecture, by the way, on the American Bicentennial and its unfinished business.
I have not visited Spain or Portugal or Greece. I visited all the Scandinavian countries with the exception of Finland -- Norway, Sweden, Denmark. And just within the last month, I spent ten days in South Africa on business, and that's a tale in itself.
I think that's it. I have not visited any of the Asian countries yet.
African, aside from South Africa?
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