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Program 599: Center Conversations: Clifton Fadiman Talks with Eugene McCarthy

Poet, professor, and politician Eugene McCarthy discusses his personal credo of “contract and commitment,” politics as a profession, the function of the politician as educator, institutional aspects of American government, and the disorders of our political and party system, in this interview with the Center’s Clifton Fadiman. Sept. 17, 1974. [CSDI program number 599; UCSB tape number A8221/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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