Ocupation: Former Vice President of the United States
Life: November 9, 1918 - September 17, 1996
Birthday: November 9
Death: September 17
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
source: Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3
topic: College, Students, Spirit, Masochism