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...ND: It seems to me that what Harvard particularly prepares you well for is going on to more professional education. What I thought Harvard did not prepare me particularly well for was getting a job outside of that sort of intellectual stream...
...ND: It was essentially desperation. I wanted to be a foreign service officer or a diplomat but I didn’t pass the foreign service exam. Then in ’56 we all had a military obligation because there was a draft, but I got rejected on physical grounds by the Navy. So I went to Washington to see if I could persuade the Navy to give me a waver and I failed. But I was walking down the street and I saw a sign that read “‘The Washington Post?...
...ND: Writing a book is very different from writing an article because when you’re writing an article you research it or you interview someone and you put it together. But how much time do you spend doing it? It might be a day, a week, or a month, but then it’s over. Writing a book requires a very long arc, a very long trajectory...
...ND: Suspicion of and resentment towards the West? How about the word “admiration”? I would say that Russians have a love-hate relationship with the United States, and generally speaking that is true for the Americans also. My view is that the Russians have not handled their relations with their neighbors very well over the centuries. They have been deeply hurt and shocked by the various invasions into Russia. These invasions have left their mark on the Russian psyche which is, essentially, a fear of foreigners...
...ND: They reflect that [fear], in my view. Russians have made a lot of rather negative comments about the West, about the United States, some of which you might even characterize as belligerent. When Obama was elected president, President Medvedev made a very strong speech to the Russian parliament, which was very negative towards the United States. From a diplomatic point of view I believe this was poorly conceived...