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    "ocrText": "in his living room which I cannot attribute with certainty to either\nof the visits I remember in detail. However, these are exchanges\nwhich could have taken place on either of the two visits or upon\nsome less memorable visit.\nBefore covering, these miscellaneous memory fragments I want to\nnote one other interchange which I am fairly certain took place on\nthe day of the assassination discussion, and which was left out of\nthe foregoing because of oversight. Gary and I talked about who\nwould make a good President and his choice was Nixon. Goldwater\nscemed like a more logical choice to me -- although I knew already\nthat Gary didn't like Goldwater because he classified Goldwater as\nJewish - - and I mentioned him. Gary replied, \"Oh, don't talk to me\nabout that raving Red. I have so far been unable to remember his\nreasons for prefering Nixon.\nAmong, the exchanges which I cannot place was one fairly long\nargument about Jim Garrison in which all three of us tool part.\nThis was not a heated argument -- I don't recall ever seeing Gary\napl ear angry -- but merely a disagreement. Gary did not like\nGarrison and in those days I did. I kept asking him for his reasons\nand then picking at them when he presented theme Finally\nhe\nsaid,\nin a very lighthearted manner, that the real reason he hated Garrison\nwas because \"he wears a vest. He said he had told that to a co-\nworker of his at the brewery and the man had really cracked up\nlaughing.\nWhenever it was that he quit at the brewery, shortly thereafter\nhe told how on the day he decided to resign he walked up behind\nsomeone who worled there that he didn't like, and jumped up and\nkicked the man in the back of the head with both feet. It sounded\nlike a difficult stunt to pull off. Then, Gary said, he went to\nthe office and turned in his resignation.\nHe said on a couple of occasions that while he considered black\npeople to be subhuman there were some \"niggers\" who were all right.\nOne of these was a man who worked at the brewery in some low-status\njob, I believe, and knew how to \"keep in his place.\"\nI recall telling Jessica that Gary was telling me stories about\nPapa Joe Comforto, but I do not remember any of these stories, or\nactually remember Gary telling them to me.\nGary had many stories to tell about the various Nazi leaders\nwhich I remember, but am not recording here because I don't think\ntheyare relevant enough to warrant the time and space it would take.\nI am sure that at some point during the discussions with Cary I\nmust have mentioned that it was a little-known fact that people\ncould indeed be hypnotized to kill. I had read this in a book by\na professor in the state of Washington who had been conducting\nexperiments with hypnotized subjects. They could be induced it was\nfound to throw what they thought was acid on somcone.\nAlmong the people Gary mentioned hating, in addition to Jews and\nus. blacks, were so many others that it was a joke between the three of"
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