Mailer Talks about Mailer, Heroes, Women
A Times Herald Record report on Mailer's West Point appearance, where he spoke of bravery and current politics, calling JFK the romantic hero the country needed.
“Mailer Talks about Mailer, Heroes, Women,” an article by Robert Perry in the (Newburgh, NY) Times Herald Record (26 April 1976), reports Mailer’s appearance at West Point, where he spoke on bravery and current politics: J. F. K. “saw the country was ready for a romantic hero and ironically it was what the country needed at the time.”