The Kennedys. The violence of the 1960s. Duck and cover drills and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Eddie the Soldier and the war in Vietnam. Busing and the violence of the 1970s. Attending the inauguration of Bill Clinton and seeing what it was like, for a few hours at least, to be surrounded by the trappings of power.

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