about what he knew. his first article, "the expanding shrink," protested how psychoanalysis was creeping into political discourse. for example, president carter's famous malaise speech that blamed the horrible economy on americans' crisis of confidence. >> they liked it and they published it, and i got lucky again. it was republished on the op-ed page of the washington post. it was the first time any article in the new republic had been picked up by the post. >> krauthammer wrote a few more pieces for the magazine and might have joined the staff, except he got an even more intriguing offer -- as a speech writer for vice president walter mondale. >> that lasted six months. and when we got totally crushed in the general election, i got a call from the new republic, and they said, "we think you're unemployed now. would you like to come work for us?" i said yes right away and started on the day reagan was sworn in. that's the first day i started at the new republic as a writer. >> so help me god. >> the new president was