In the spring of 1968, shortly before I graduated from Yale, my father returned to campus to visit me and attend his twenty-fifth reunion. He ran into [Cord] Meyer at a bar set up for alumni in their blazers and bow ties and big blue lapel buttons announcing their name and class. “The world is in a fight to the death between us and the other side,” growled Meyer, “and I am the Lord High Executioner.”
Strobe Talbot, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 211.
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