Volume 30, Number 5 · March 31, 1983
Saving My Soul at the Plaza
By Alfred Kazin
To my surprise, 'The Committee for the Free World, Midge Decter Executive Secretary,' invited me to attend its conference on 'Our Country and Our Culture,' February 12-13, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Admission, $50. I confess that whenever I see a piece of print reading 'The Committee for the Free World, Midge Decter Executive Secretary,' I laugh. I'm reminded of a young reporter, who was granted an interview in the Oval Office with President Lyndon Johnson, and so exasperated Johnson by his bumbling questions that the great man, rising to his full 6 feet 3 1/2 inches, sputtered in indignation: 'How can you ask a chicken-shit question like that of the Head of the Free World?'
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