I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master G
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.