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read, “Kenneth Clark Asks New Drugs to Curb Hostility of Leaders.” I believe that was on the front page, if I recall --

Clark:

-- of the Sunday TIMES.

Q:

That's right. Boyce Rensberger. I noticed, toward the end of the speech, here, and this will be the only thing I'll quote from the speech for the tape, “It seems logical that a requirement imposed on all power-controlling leaders and those who aspire to such leadership would be that they accept and use the earliest perfected form of psychotechnological, biochemical intervention, which would assure their positive use of power, and reduce or block the possibility of their using power destructively.”

Is that, what I picked out, pretty much the -- ??

Clark:

This is close,

God, you know, I got clippings from all over the world on that.

Q:

Yes.

Clark:

90 percent of them being negative.

Q:

In this -- this may be something that you would like to elaborate on later -- but branching from your thesis, I have this quotation attributed to John Patrick Sears III, who is Ronald Reagan's chief strategist, but this is in regard to Richard Nixon, and the quote in the NEW YORK TIMES, “Man in the News” column, said,” I saw that he had deep personal insecurities, along with great strengths,





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