In that time, the ‘50s, Geneva was kind of the emblem of the active diplomatic life. The Indochina accords had been reached there in 1954 and so on. And I was musing with him one day because I was really torn personally between a life of theory and a life of practice. As you know he made a sharp distinction between the two. In any case I was musing with him whether one could pursue a life of theory and a life of practice, whether you could be a person of action but retain the consciousness of theory. And Gaudino instead of giving me a conceptual answer or an abstract answer said, “You can’t read Plato on the plane to Geneva.” And that was not only incisive, it kind of made my own choices seem more dramatic. “You can’t read Plato on the plane to Geneva.”

Richard Herzog,
’60, practices law in Washington D.C., where he also has held several government posts, one overseeing the nation’s oil pricing and allocation regulations after the 1970s Middle Eastern oil embargo