{"id":1824,"date":"2009-01-02T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T04:37:00","slug":"the-best-minds-of-a-generation-naked-and-destroyed-by-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"The Best Minds of a Generation, Naked, and Destroyed by Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[digg-reddit-me]Scott Shane in The New York Times<\/em> describes this little known story<\/a> now available as part of the freshly indexed archive of Kissinger telephone calls:<\/p>\n

In April 1971, Mr. Kissinger accepted a call from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg<\/a>, who hoped to arrange a meeting between top Nixon administration officials and antiwar activists.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps you don\u2019t know how to get out of the war,\u201d Ginsberg ventured.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kissinger said he was open to a meeting. \u201cI like to do this,\u201d he said, \u201cnot just for the enlightenment of the people I talk to, but to at least give me a feel of what concerned people think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Ginsberg upped the ante. \u201cIt would be even more useful if we could do it naked on television,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Kissinger\u2019s reply is transcribed simply as \u201cLaughter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Picture courtesy of Linda Bisset<\/a> licensed under Creative Commons.]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[digg-reddit-me]Scott Shane in The New York Times describes this little known story now available as part of the freshly indexed archive of Kissinger telephone calls: In April 1971, Mr. Kissinger accepted a call from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who hoped to arrange a meeting between top Nixon administration officials and antiwar activists. \u201cPerhaps you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[1194,352,1195,148],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-henry-kissinger","tag-scott-shane","tag-the-new-york-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-tq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}