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380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"

The Fifth Column

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How Did You Score the Big Interview With Hunter Thompson?

"I came and shooting guns. I'm not going to tell you what I was not doing or doing," he says. "Well, that's just journalistic malpractice." Thompson bought a two ton World War II airplane cockpit simulator for the interview. He later tried to sell it to Johnny Depp but it rusted in his yard. 'If I didn't do that, would I be an actuary? What would my career be?' asks Robert Kagan.

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