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"Gordon: "Hall: ants HE ae “Hoffman: Re: Lou Gordon Television Show of sé July 13, 1969, Detroit, Michigan, ; Featuring Abbott Howard Hoffman, James Freed and Gordon Hall “No. I don't think they even exist. It was a slogan. There are no Yippiés. It was a certain kind of technique in order to have people come to Chicago to make a statement about the Democratic process. It was a slogan, ‘Yippie' with an exclama- tion point. ‘There is no organization. It might be an expression of a certain kind of life style that is growing out around underground newspapers, drugs, rock and roll, anti-war people, young people in general, a certain kind of youth culture. But there. are no Yippies. I agree by the way with that, that the Youth International Party is largely a creation of the press. Do you, are you, let me interrupt just a moment. Go ahead thibitionist? refe Are you of fended ‘by "that? Well, I, I don't particularly . care about any words you use to describe me because I don't consider you a source of authority and I don't relate to you in order to run my life. So you can call me anything you want. Wall that isn't really what I asked vou,wel’, let FES wh oh fF wb oR e a eae tienen! 4 FE 6 Se _ ee eed FT ee we me put it another way. Would you, would you ever stop to consider yourself as one who is primarily an exhibitionist and sort of given to, You know, eccentric behavior, almost for the purpose of bing eccentric because I have seen you in a number of different guises over the years and they seem always geared to kind of the vast public display of your- self to get attention, that is why I asked you the ete ques tion. I would use any technique that I thought was proper. in order to disrupt what appears to be a democra- tically run process in this country.