He is an admirer and scholar of the work of George Kennan, the diplomat who devised President Harry Truman's policy of containment of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War.
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The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger appeared in a cameo role as the campus radical Joe Freedom.
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