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One thing we know is that they are human. They're a special kind of human beings, but they are not outside of the discernible laws of human behavior. They're not. There have -- They've been immune to too many of our requirements, but -- and, they die.

They get psychosis, neurosis -- they even have king-sized forms of them.

All right. How did you get on this?

I read your speech, “Pathos of Power,” Dr. Clark, and actually the subject of mass leaders has for years fascinated me. I want answers to some of the questions I --

-- you not only should be fascinated, now, but -- what is the word? I think most of us, if we think about it, quickly repress the implications of our thoughts, about the tremendous amount of power, unprecedented power, that mass leaders, national leaders, now have. This is unprecedented. At no time in the history of man was it true that very few people had the power to decide on the destiny, in terms of the extinction or survival, of mankind. And how we went through that Kennedy- Cuban missile thing, with the equanimity that we seemed to, pretended to, is beyond me.

You realize that that little boy and his brother and a few cronies had the destiny of all mankind in their hands?

One of the most poignant things I ever read was some communication that Bertrand Russell shared with me, the year after the Cuban missile crisis, that he had with Khrushchev, and the fact of the matter is, Khrushchev decided that mankind should