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Hi everybody. This is Gatsad. Today I have a esteemed professor from Harvard, who has been a professor since

1962 before I was born. Professor Harvey Mansfield, how are you doing, sir?

Pretty well, thank you for considering my age, yes.

Well, okay, so I want to just briefly introduce your bio.

It's a shortened bio.

You're the William R. Keenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard.

As I said, you've been at Harvard since 1962.

You were the head of the department from 1973 to 1977.

You held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships. You were the head of the department from 1973 to 1977. You held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships.

You were the recipient in 2004 of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush.

You've been the author of many books, but today we're going to focus on two books,

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