Gore Vidal Interview

[@AAwildeone]

There must be so many people in the academic world, the "literati", the media, and politics who are taking a deep breath out of either relief or celebration. Thanks Mr. Vidal! Thank You for eight decades of challenging honesty

[@TrpleAgnt2011]

Yes that was fantastic, a real treat. I saw him speak publicly in the late 'Nineties and was surprised that he was so gracious and humble in person.

[@37Dionysos]

Be a free-spirited poet in the morning, a scholar in the afternoon, and a critical editor in the evening. Then what you write encompasses all sides of your mind...

[@retiredsk8tr1953]

Thank you for this upload....most enjoyable. Have followed his career since my undergraduate years....fascinating!

[@jasonnewyork1]

The most important moment of the interview comes at about the 18 minute mark. He talks about how much money you have to raise just to stay a senator. That's true. And that's at the heart of what's wrong with politics.

[@chewydssh]

Such a great thinking mind. R.I.P.

[@Robespierre1758X]

It's funny Vidal says he cannot find "the Mystery of the Blue Room" in any encyclopedias that's because it is called The Secret of the blue Room

[@AAwildeone]

It would be a world certainly on its way to something better if Gore Vidal, Harold Bloom, and Noam Chomsky continue to be involved in perhaps the most important discourse in American (if not WORLD) history!

[@Karpify]

He was like America's awesome grandpa

[@lidiagoldfeld9681]

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

[@dengelke]

Awesome. Is there a part II?

[@408Magenta]

Love it - the knee is the only part of the anatomy I've never had to use in life!!!!

[@elizabethhestevold1340]

Interesting, Great mind and energy. Gore Vidal. As particular Activist. Eyes tell off some one who's seen it all, or to much off the human Theather. 🇩🇰🇺🇸🗽🦅📬🤔

[@guston46]

I agree!

[@hyroller56]

He said many truthful things and was mostly a god egg.But,the ego is the last thing to die

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Yes, he had a brilliant mind, but that doesn’t mean he was necessarily always correct in his thinking, not by a long shot.

[@Robespierre1758X]

21:30

[@thelumpenproletariat6393]

Al Gore and Caroll Quigley....why don't they read these authors in school???

[@408Magenta]

I use the NY Times to clean myself after I defacate.