You can tell he was highly intelligent...the way he reasons, jokes, tells anecdotes, and how he keeps his line of thought coherent at all times, while being entertaining. Delightful man , sadly passed in 2012.
@MichaelSmith-jw8qw8 жыл бұрын
I sure miss Gore Vidal--glad this is on KZfaq. It is always fun to listen to him.
@sspbrazil4 жыл бұрын
Michael Smith I miss him too.
@simonbailey8814 Жыл бұрын
Me too
@cindymaceda29996 ай бұрын
He expressed his opinions about the useless wars in the Mid-East that de-stabilised the world , not fearing being called a traitor which he was NOT.
@jake1056 жыл бұрын
I was at this event. It was so full of people, they needed two extra overflow rooms in which they rushed video screens into for us late comers to watch. I was in a room right next to the Girls Harvard swim team. And all these tall athletic blonds with wet hair and towels around their shoulders were walking in and out so much I could barely pay attention to the lecture. It was a great time though. I got to meet Gore at the book signing. He looked up at me like he expected me to say something interesting, but all I could say was thank you. looking back at it now, I'm sure he was just waiting for me to say my name so he could write it onthe page. I was just to nervous meeting him. Hey, it was my first ever book signing.
@kristinpfanku39274 жыл бұрын
Lucky you!
@johnnylongfeather30862 жыл бұрын
Fun story!
@jake1052 жыл бұрын
I’d forgotten I posted that.
@jake1052 жыл бұрын
Johnny, my father was born in Fort Yates ND. He took me there when I was 12. His mother and younger brother was still living there at the time. Summer 1972
@seinfeld8812 Жыл бұрын
This is actually a good story thank you for sharing
@wally1452 Жыл бұрын
I come back to listen to one of the finest Americans we were so fortunate to have...and still have, with his wonderful writings and a good number of his visits as this or his spoken & written essays. I miss him and that great way he spoke so clearly and honestly re all persons & things concerning the U.S. and warnings that we must strive to go back to and heed the great ones that brought forth this nation. What an amazing, good man, great historian, always going forth telling the truth. There will not be another like him, I do not think.
@bruceguerin3 жыл бұрын
Videl is a true intellectual and will be held in high reverence as time moves along
@wally14522 жыл бұрын
I like hearing, reading Gore Vidal. He was our last great man of Letters.
@daveatlarge50305 жыл бұрын
At a time in history we need men like him. You are so missed....
@cheri2382 ай бұрын
There were only about 10, 000 lobbiest in Washington D.C. when President Kennedy ran and the multiplication began. RIP 🙏 ❤ Gore Vidal. You are missed by your enormous wisdom of essays and novels of history. "Burr" 1973 was your it was mine. History, philosophy, music, literature and poetry were my favorite, although I never attended college, my papa attended to me with his library at the age of five. Gore's father Eugene was the director of the Commerce Department of Air Commerce during the Roosevelt Administration 1933-1937 and was the great love of Ameila Earhart. His father also in the 20's & 30's was the founder or executor of three airlines, Ludington Line, later Eastern, Transncontiental Air Transport, later Trans World & Northeast airlines. Ralph Nader did his best he could, but he was just lawyer. He did get us seat belts and saved millions of lives. I am happy you and Ralph kept speaking with one another. I can go through Gore Vidal's family history. But now I will just listen to his ephemeral voice with glee.
@cheri2382 ай бұрын
I have always loved history, philosophy, music, literature, poetry and art beginning at the age of five years old. My papa attended my lessons with his first edition books, although I never attended college.
@ircrane33496 жыл бұрын
The questions from the audience are quite good and concise ,not long winded like many debates.
@Einstein14142 жыл бұрын
Loved him. A Giant intellect!
@simonbailey8814 Жыл бұрын
I love the way Gore played with his cane.
@dogcatparty73714 жыл бұрын
November 2019 Everyone needs to listen to this video to prepare for every election count.
@cindymaceda29996 ай бұрын
We really need him now. He expressed his opinions about the useless wars in the Mid-East that de-stabilised the world , not fearing being called a traitor which he was NOT.
@boeingdriver295 жыл бұрын
What a mind, what a man !
@Bigwave20037 жыл бұрын
How can an interview, professionally filmed at Harvard in 2003, look this color distorted and grainy?
@feedyourhead4343 жыл бұрын
You seem to have forgotten how bad home video quality was in 2003
@johnnylongfeather30862 жыл бұрын
!!? Maybe it’s a VCR copy of a copy or something.
@19battlehill6 жыл бұрын
Dennis Kusinch is the best, Gore Vidal nails this -- the presidency is not a beauty pagent and he tells the truth. Vidal is telling the truth they own the media.
@petestevens3970 Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@dengelke10 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@scottyjoe223 жыл бұрын
Don't forget to restore and expand the Bill of Rights!
@fredphilippi83885 ай бұрын
Gore Vidal was even more prescient for the 2020s.
@shangrila73eldorado5 жыл бұрын
the patrician renegade, the patrician maniac, the traitor to his class, the philanderer, the pied pooper, the midnight scooper, the loopty looper...none other than, the great, the wholesome, the fulcrum, the lever, and the beaver -- GORE VIDAL
@Austin8thGenTexan4 жыл бұрын
Gore was anything other than wholesome - and FDR was "the traitor to his class..." Gore was wonderful - warts and all! 🌞 🌛
@paintboy7763 жыл бұрын
I worry the retribution and cost for our sins.
@varisleek33603 жыл бұрын
its gonna be wild
@jerrymiller23465 жыл бұрын
33:20"Don't allege that he's thinking"! Gore to the interviewer regarding Bush!!!! Fkin right on!
@Thomas-fu8vp4 жыл бұрын
GV left his estate to Harvard.
@stevenbollinger97764 жыл бұрын
I love academic discussions and lectures, and I hate the pointless long-winded introductions. How many of you feel the same way, and why are the rest of you lying?
@kiwitrainguy2 жыл бұрын
I've learnt to recognise them and fast-forward through them. It's so much fun to do that.
@LisavonPoelking3 ай бұрын
#getsmartlikegorevidal
@37Dionysos6 жыл бұрын
Lydon was always there to water every spark of genius.
@NikoHL3 жыл бұрын
Gore Vidal.. Brilliant man.
@ferabra89396 жыл бұрын
He has a point. "He has the wrong height to be President". Which sounds ridiculous, but it's true. Many over 6 feet tall. They look more presidential. Those under 5 10 are considered failures, those considered great presidents were the tallest. Lincoln, Washington, FDR, Jefferson....all over 6 2
@johnnylongfeather30862 жыл бұрын
Sharpton is sharp? Wow
@ke11yke11z Жыл бұрын
Scary the things thus man was saying 2o years ago. To think after the assassination of Sadam hussein how society keeps crumbling. Family Unit Keeps Degenerating
@de33ess35 жыл бұрын
7:58 "by persons unknown"
@cindymaceda29996 ай бұрын
We still don’t know 60 years later, do we?😮
@user-vr6io5xb9e4 жыл бұрын
32:58 “China will have its turn and there’s nothing we can do about it “... and the time has come
@edisone15 жыл бұрын
Barely any discussion of Washington, Adams, or Jefferson
@robertrichard61074 жыл бұрын
He mentions 1876 thpugh, a great book of his to read. It is very essential in understanding how we're being undermined today.
@willpeony5534 Жыл бұрын
Would Vidal have masked?
@BlueBaron33394 жыл бұрын
Why, why, why, oh why do they feel they always have to open it up to questions from the audience? 😖 😞
@BlueBaron33394 жыл бұрын
@@meadow9441 Good point but sometimes it can make things worse. I mean...it's Harvard, complete with immense, entitled egos. Well...I can't say, as I stop watching these the moment the questions start, unless it was Christopher Hitches who loved to skewer folks who asked dumb or self-serving questions 😈
@jeremiah5342 Жыл бұрын
A lot of people on the right have come around to his thinking.
@negbefla6956 Жыл бұрын
Problem with recording current events is they become dated quickly. I will read book but skip this video.
@youtubeuser-7098 Жыл бұрын
13:00-
@cjprice1700 Жыл бұрын
Nice open mindedness from Harvard...
@thefakenewsnetwork80722 жыл бұрын
Long live freedom and democratic communism
@johnnylongfeather30862 жыл бұрын
4:18 bad joke, didn’t make sense. Rewind it - the man didn’t misspeak
@tyleranyways Жыл бұрын
6:30 36:50 I instantly thought of trump with all the right wing populist rhetoric. 39:51 45:20. 27:43 40:21 56:55 LOL.
@cesargonzalez79573 жыл бұрын
36:22 on third parties
@kiwitrainguy2 жыл бұрын
I've recently come to the conclusion that the best way for US citizens to vote is for a third party, and it doesn't matter which one it is either.
@nuada1237 ай бұрын
The despotism of the Trump Era surely demonstrates the truth of Franklin's words.
@Larry26-f1w3 ай бұрын
The “potism “ of this era is exemplified by fake plants 🪴🪴🪴🫡🫡👍