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but I believed that once he was finally President, he could act with more confidence and assurance. Instead, the insecurities became more pronounced.”

And then, Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker wrote, in a condensation of his book, wrote of Hitler, he said, “We can for instance only guess now at the hidden fathomless hates of a man such as Hitler, hates that any capable physician living in Germany could have predicted at the first display of paranoiac rage,” and so forth.

I brought these --

Clark:

-- and Stalin.

Q:

-- partly to see if this might stimulate some more of your past and present thinking on this problem.

Clark:

Not now. Not now. What I'll do is, when we talk next time, I will show you a precursor to my presidential speech, which was an editorial which I wrote for the American Phychological Association MONITOR, their newspaper, in which I really telescoped, you know, or projected my thoughts, in terms of social responsibility of psychologists. But nobody saw the relationship between the thing that I wrote at the beginning of my term, an president of APA, and the speech at the end of the term. They all praised the first thing, because it didn't talk about precise, systematic psychopharmacalogical intervention. It talked about the goals, with a wide range of trial and error possibilities, which psychologists feel comfortable about. American psychologists. Not Russian psychologists,





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