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Forty-Second Street library. That's where' I got my education.” Now as I've said, there are now in New York City two million people who were not born in the United States. Then of course for the old the library is also a refuge.

Now this question really relates to your motivations. Why have you spent so much time in the last few years with this institution?

Because I had to, or it wouldn't have worked!

Why did you choose this institution as opposed to another one to give your time to?

I've given my time to a lot of different institutions. This happens to be the one I'm doing now.

So you don't have a special feeling for it.

I've done an awful lot at Harvard--I even did a lot at Bennington. Oh! [laughs] I met the chairman the other night. We were having an event at the Library for the Slavonic division. The two speakers were--who's the man who wrote the famous containment letter signed “X”?

George Kennan.

George Kennan, eighty, upright as anything, and Adam