gore vidal

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Gore Vidal in Los Angeles Royalty Free Stock Photo

Novelist, essayist,playwright, and social critic Gore Vidal addresses students at the Lunchtime Speakers Series, at Bovard Auditorium at the University of Southern California on Dec. 6, 1974. His witty presentation focused in large part on the misdeeds of the recently departed Nixon administration and the shortcomings of his successor Gerald Ford.