[Zeke]

I watched a video of Mike Wallace interviewing FLW in 1951. FLW seemed very intelligent and well sorted in his philosophies. He was unconventional to say the least and not particularly cooperative. He wasn't rude, he was well composed, but he did not succumb to foolish questions. To MW's credit, he didn't ask stupid questions but stumbled a couple of times in response. FLW derailed MW more than once but MW got back on script fairly easily.

I noticed that FLW used the reverse the question to put the other person on the defensive technique. MW handled that pretty well by a direct answer or changing the subject.

No question who ruled the interview and MW was one of the best. As for FLW, he had some interesting viewpoints. He seemed to dwell on Thomas Jefferson as his idealist. At once he was he was not pompous or aloof but he did set himself aside from the "mob." That was his word for conformist society. Had nothing to do with the slang for organized crime.

There was no discussion of business dealings or personal interactions. I was interested enough to look for a book on Amazon. I found mostly books on the architecture and a couple of autobiographies. I wasn't looking to learn more about the architecture and I figured the autobiographies would be devoid of criticism so I passed for now. The man was an enigma. Some of his musings were excellent. The context was missing because of the time constraint.