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LECTURE 1

The routine here is straightforward. Professor Joe
Joe Brennan is with me today. He's an Emeritus Professor
from Columbia. I will talk for about an hour and then we'll
go have a cup of coffee and then we'll sit down and he'll
give what he calls a postscript. That will last, at his
pleasure, maybe a half hour or longer. That's all we'll do
on the Wednesdays and then Thursdays we'll (those of you who
are not auditing - we do have some auditors here who I'm glad
to see) be splitting into two groups and each of you will
alternate - once with Joe and once with me. I'll take Group A
tomorrow at 1:30 in a little room - I hope not too small a
room - but a very classy room here. The one with Admiral
Ingersoll's picture on the wall, right at the top of the
stairs.

My biggest problem with this course has been to explain
to people why I'm giving it. I've tried several ways, but
I think it sells itself. Everybody's so conditioned to this
immediate payoff that George Wilson of the Washington Post,
of course a very unmilitary sort of guy - in fact, sometimes
the biggest adversary we've got going in Washington - said in my
office on day, "I'd like to be able to say why you're giving
it, but I can't understand what it's going to do." He wasn't
arguing about it, we were trying to think of something he could