10 Questions For Gore Vidal

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I had kept a house there for over 40 years. I knew that one day the Cedars-Sinai days would come and Howard and I would need to be close to that hospital. Sad to say, that day came.

You close your book by discussing another book, Ultimate Sacrifice, which argues that J.F.K.'s assassination was ordered by the Mafia in retaliation for Robert Kennedy's pursuit of the Mob. Why end with that?

This was the great unsolved mystery of our generation, to those of us who were grownups at the time that Jack was killed. And it's a country of unanswered questions.

There's a lot of reflection in your memoir about old age and death. Have you thought about what you'd like your last words to be?

Like my living words. "I told you so!"