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Timothy Francis Leary — psychologist, visionary, and fearless explorer of consciousness. From the hallowed halls of Harvard to the frontiers of the human mind, he dared to question the boundaries of perception and inspired generations to think, feel, and dream beyond the ordinary.
…a hard year. We had the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the terrible riots, the election of Richard Nixon. That was a big setback to the hopes and the idealism of that period. Do you think we'll ever see conflict…
…that, I thank you, John Harvard. Starting in 1960, that was an interesting year. John Kennedy was running for the presidency against Richard Nixon. I guess he stole it, the election in Texas and Chicago. But in any case, he became president. There was a…
…of a fascist power. In Hitler, the fascist power was led by Adolf Hitler. In this country, it was led by Richard Nixon. But they were very similar in many ways, including denouncing their greatest scientist as a maniac, a dangerous lunatic, and chasing…
…if you take the speeches of the 60s, it all came true. We said the government was going to fall. Well, the Richard Nixon government in 1974 fell. It wasn't a revolution. The 16-year-olds didn't overwhelm the White House and turn it into a hippie commune.…
…900. That's pretty good. I wish mine was that. Now, when I was disillusioned was the year 1960. in the electoral contest between Richard Nixon on the one hand and John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the other. And at the time, I was a special agent of the FBI…
…and the Huns and the Goths were at the doorstep. And this, of course, was the terror that haunted J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon and LBJ in the 60s. If our young people would rather do meditation and get high than fight in Vietnam, then we're in…
…cluttering up the planet We'd have John Denver and Frank Sinatra at the age of 500 playing at Las Vegas We'd have Richard Nixon running for the 55th time for president And since politics, you know politics is mammalian up and down sooner or later he'd…