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>> So as Dartmouth's spokesman, I have the unique pleasure of interviewing one
of the fiercest correspondents that the White House has seen in recent years.
You wrote this great book --
>> Thank you.
>> -- and I know that you've been talking about it.
It's a book that you're clearly proud of.
You've been out talking about it with lots of different media.
So I suspect you've had a lot of the same questions over and over again.
I'm going to ask you a question I suspect you have not heard yet.
>> Okay.
>> What did you learn at Dartmouth that contributed
to the process of, or the completion of this book?
>> I think my Dartmouth experience influenced the book in two ways.
One is, I do consider the book to be a work of scholarship.
I spent a lot of time doing more than 225 -- interviewing more than 225 subjects.
I spent a lot of time doing the footnotes and endnotes for the book
so that they would pass the rigorous test of an academic --
maybe not make it through the History Department per se, but it could be appreciated.
Where did he learn this?
Look in the endnotes, oh that's where he got it from.
So there was certainly a pride in scholarship that I learned and developed in Dartmouth.
I remember like finding books in the stacks that were from the 1800s.
And First Editions.
And just seeking information in them, just so I could put that information in the paper
and just have a book [chuckles] -- a book that was 150 years old in my endnotes.
Whether or not that impressed Professor Lagomorecino [phonetic], I don't know.
But it was a lot of fun for me.
That kind of devotion to the scholarship, I think was completely developed here.
And then also, I just think Dartmouth has always been for me a place of debate and discussion,
and whether it was from the classes I took here -- I took a woman's studies class.
I took sociology.
I took a lot -- I took religion classes.
I took a lot of different kinds of classes.
And whether it was from those classes, or from campus politics,
and I was a cartoonist for the "Daily Dartmouth" here.
And did a comic strip every day.
By the time I graduated and routinely tried to skewer
and satirize what was the debate on campus.
I think that, just in general, that --