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Brian VanDeMark

Brian VanDeMark

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Sep 6, 2026

12:49
And I think over time,
12:50
I interviewed him for about a year and a half.
12:53
I think he got more comfortable with me and vice versa.
12:57
And I also realized that he's the kind of human being who, they're big people and small people, Ty.
13:04
Small people are petty, insecure, aggressive, addictive, and so forth.
13:10
Big people, they're large in terms of spirit, and they admire those who will speak the truth to them, even if it's sometimes painful and critical.
13:19
And Once I understood that that's the kind of human being he was, there was a very critical biography of him that was published in the process of my interviewing him.
17:02
Road to Disaster
6:35
Why does a bout of protest begin in May on Kent State campus?
6:40
Well, I want to make a general point and then a more specific one.
6:43
The Vietnam War was fought in an era of the draft.
6:46
And that is a qualitatively profound difference between today and yesterday, so to speak.
6:52
The draft essentially granted deferments and or exemptions to college Americans up until 1969.
7:01
When the manifest injustice of that system, which effectively prejudiced working class Americans whose families couldn't afford to send them to college, they were exposed to draft whereas college students were not.
7:13
That deferment slash exemption was lifted in 1969, which now exposed College of Americans to the draft.

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44:04
That governor actually does write a letter of regret, correct?

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