Reagan Did Not Do So
Harry Crews: And when I knew about Dilaudid, Dilaudid's form on the street cost $25—it probably cost $60 now.
Milton Friedman: We were supposedly maintaining the price of gold at $35 an ounce.
Crews: What is that movie star, she's got tattoos on her, and she's got long hair, and she sang with the guy, and they split, and the television show and the rest of it?
Friedman: So, partly it depends on what questions you're asking what you want to get an answer to.
Crews: But if it doesn't, it doesn't. Because between conception and execution there is a void, an abyss, that inevitably fucks up the conception.
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Friedman: And what happened in the 1970s was about as clear a demonstration of something that had already been predicted in advance as you could have.
Crews: I knew a bunch of guys down there, so I just thought I'd go.
Friedman: It's not easy to excuse what they did, in my opinion.
Crews: I don't even remember—I can't imagine how in the hell we used to do it.
Friedman: I’m not sure. I don’t have a magic way of doing it.
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Harry Crews: Old guy. Strange dude. And he had a Porsche.
Milton Friedman: I don't want to denigrate him, he was a great economist.
Crews: [Reads aloud, with an ironic tone, the photo caption] You got to buy one.
Friedman: Reagan did not do so.
Crews: I don't know what the fuck we're talking about.