"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
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"[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian."
"I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet."
"I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960."