Ken Burns

He was an asset for the United States working at the Soviet embassy in Washington.

Poof, gone.

So all of a sudden, the abstractions of talking about Cold Wars and stuff like that goes down to the minutia of somebody in Geneva doing this to somebody else.

You know, the popular vote in 76, 1876, Tilden wins the popular vote.

And we had three elections with with with Grover Cleveland.

He all won the popular vote three times and lost the middle one.

So you could make an argument, therefore, with regard to I think your excellent theories about the Cold War is that when the Soviet empire collapsed, the total destabilizing of American politics was assured.

That is to say, destabilized from what you're calling the outlier of a kind of general consensus that had been built not since just 45, but I would say back to the progressive era where you had people in both parties wishing to use government as an instrumentality of progress, or at least as TR would say, a countervailing force between labor and capital.

So what happens, it's just surviving the thing.

And so that when you take this away, you don't have an enemy anymore.

And so who do you make the enemy?

Yeah, well, I'm trying.

I'm trying.

Give me time.

I'm taking vitamins.

I'm walking.

I'm doing my exercises.

Look, Chuck, I have the best job in the country.

Well, you know, I think that part of the Central Park Five begins in the early, is resolved in the 21st century.

The update of baseball called the 10th inning ends in 2009.