Alan Dershowitz: I Enjoy Getting Naked
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http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/12/15/104455
Saturday Dec. 15, 2001; 11:42 a.m. EST
Alan Dershowitz: I Enjoy Getting Naked at Nude Beach
Buttoned-down Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz admitted Saturday that
he enjoys getting naked at a clothing optional beach on Martha's Vineyard
and defended his sandy frolics by claiming that Eleanor Roosevelt used to do
the same thing.
The bizarre confession came as WABC Radio's Richard Bey interviewed Peter
Simon about his new book "I and Eye: Pictures of My Generation," about how
the 1960's changed American culture.
Dershowitz, apparently a friend of Simon, phoned in to talk about the book.
DERSHOWITZ: You know, when I started teaching Harvard Law School in 1964 it
was a crime for anybody to fornicate; that is, to have sex with somebody
with whom you were not married. That was a crime in Massachusetts. Even the
extreme right, with a few exceptions, have accepted the notion that sex is
not the government's business.
BEY: Except that now fornication has become a form of entertainment.
SIMON: Alan, let's bring it back home. You and I both go to this wonderful
nude beach on Martha's Vineyard. That never would have happened without the
60's.
BEY: Alan, I've got to tell you something - with the listening audience here
at ABC, they are now screaming and pulling their hair out at the thought of
Alan Dershowitz running on the beach nude.
DERSHOWITZ: (laughing nervously) Ah, I've been - nobody is required to
imagine that phenomenon.
BEY: Thank you.
SIMON: Don't you think, Alan, that the popularization of that sort of
intimacy in a kind of a public way was an affect of the 60's?
DERSHOWITZ: No, I don't, actually. Cause I think, you know, Eleanor
Roosevelt used to run naked on that nude beach....
SIMON: But it wasn't a movement?
BEY: That's another thing I'd rather not ponder.
DERSHOWITZ: I don't see that as a movement. I see that as just a personal -
you know, people - there are a lot of beaches. There's a lot of privacy.
People do what they want. Skinny-dipping is as popular among conservatives
as it is among liberals. (End of Excerpt)
In other comments, the renowned Harvard lawyer contended that Bill Clinton
would have been a great president if the 9/11 attacks had happened on his
watch.
"Peter and I both know Bill Clinton," Dershowitz told WABC. "And I know him
as somebody who sometimes is incredibly focused.
"For example I think, God forbid, if Sept. 11 had occured two years earlier,
you would have seen a president so focused on doing what had to be done it
would have raised him to the most incredible heights of leadership."
Dershowitz called Clinton "either fortunate or unfortunate to preside over
eight years of relative peace and prosperity.... it was a relatively boring
time. He never had a chance to rise to the occasion."
The renowned law professor did not say whether Clinton, who spent several
vacations on Martha's Vineyard as president, ever turned up at his favorite
nude beach.
hjkl
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>Saturday Dec. 15, 2001; 11:42 a.m. EST
>Alan Dershowitz: I Enjoy Getting Naked at Nude Beach
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>Buttoned-down Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz admitted Saturday that
>he enjoys getting naked at a clothing optional beach on Martha's Vineyard
Let's NOT have a JPG of this, M'kay?
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