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strategy, that makes him think this way and feel this way.”

I remember one time I accepted that this might be the case. I don't know whether I deliberately brought the subject up one evening in conversation, or whether it just came up accidentally, but at any rate the conversation led around to Oliver Cromwell, who, of course, was a military dictator with illusions of grandeur, the same glassy stare in his eye, and a terrific sense of personal power. Yet Cromwell is one who is strangely enough, and I think because most people don't study history with any reality of analysis of what's going on, admired in circles where you wouldn't expect he would be. Oliver Cromwell has quite a lot of following. Quite a lot of very respectable people speak respectfully of Oliver Cromwell.

I found that Johnson detested Oliver Cromwell just about as much as I do, and that's a good deal. I cringe at the thought of Oliver Cromwell. He seems to me to have been one of the most terrible things that ever happened in western civilization. It was just by the grace of God that we escaped the permanent mark of what Cromwell intended to do. It was certainly a very terrifying episode in the history of western civilization.

I don't remember now whether I deliberately brought the name of Cromwell up, or not. Cromwell is kind of a test word