but he did say to people later on that yeah we were at War the Kennedy administration we were at war with the National Security people and his wife told um the producer for Oliver Stone’s JFK uh this guy named Eric Hamburg his wife said oh yeah Arthur’s like agnostic but I know it was like the CIA that killed Jack Kennedy right so this is an example of where the guy is like kind of contradicting himself because he sees the U.S Schlesinger saw the us as an Empire and the presidency as presiding over this war machine even at the same time that he knew that the war that war machine had like overpowered his own uh boss his own president and friend uh President Kennedy but because he wanted to be Mr establishment guy and he wanted to continue to play tennis with Richard Helms he never really went there