This channel is an absolute gem and must never come down

Brilliant work to find the full text and footage of the 1949 Declaration speech of Chairman Mao

This video was incredibly interesting, the title doesn't do it justice, it makes it sound like just another documentary about Mao. The title should mention the fact that the founding speech of the PRC is reconstructed and heard for the first time since it was recorded

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up ❗❗❗👍👍👍👍👍

Air force: "I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move" *Circles behind formation*

Fascinating. Real History, as long as you delete Dan Snow at the beginning.

@Elpapatuyodeusa

2 жыл бұрын

Lol why u say that.. But yeah I agree the intro is wierd

@muhammhassamshafqaat

2 жыл бұрын

True!!!

@CP-vi2rm

2 жыл бұрын

Dont be mean.. lol

@hist8332

2 жыл бұрын

Not so fast the intro is awkward but Mr. Snow is cool.

@coltonhunt4794

2 жыл бұрын

But history hit... Its like the netflix of documentaries

Thank you for teaching me more about China in an hour than I learned in Elementary school, Junior High, Highschool, and college.

@YuChiGongG

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. You seem to have been very unlucky in your choice of schools throughout your educational experience.

This is the best narrator in the world, just so it is known; he also narrates a FANTASTIC documentary about Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀) also by the documentary maker in this film, Peter du Cain.

An exeptional documentary, thank you!

I can understand most of Mao's speech. My hometown is about 300 miles away from Mao's. Compared to 70 years ago, Chinese people are not good at understanding speech with strong local accent. Because most people started to learn standard Mandarin when they were kids. They didn't have chance to practice the ability to understand speech with strong accent.

@anshdangi3603

2 жыл бұрын

So what were they doing there? A language which can't be understood by most of the people? Were people really happy or it was just happiness imposed on them or something else?

@qiangliu5950

2 жыл бұрын

@@anshdangi3603 As I said, if go back 70 years ago, Chinese people were much better at understanding strong accent. I believe most people at the parade were able to understand the speech. Because at that time, most politicians had strong accents. Today's people, especially the younger people from north China, are not so good at it.

@ayi3455

2 жыл бұрын

China is full of illusion. You see Wuxia dramas. heroes fight each other flying. their Qigong can destroy a house.. it's the first illusion. the actors travel from Tayli / Dali kingdom far up to the Liao or Jin empire in the north, or western Xia kingdom, just within days. From islands in the China sea to Xi'an takes only several days. Those are second illusion. And everywhere people speak Mandarin, or even Cantonese for Wuxia movies produced in 1970s and 1980s. The heroes could read Chinese characters so easily.. That's the third illusion. Now the communist create many other illusions...

@luckydrag7273

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayi3455 have you woken up from narnia yet?

@ayi3455

2 жыл бұрын

@@luckydrag7273 Which of my words is wrong....??

12:50 Mao's speech on that day was a paragraph of words not just a sentence. Most young people think it was just that one sentence is because for many years we Chinese often quoted that one sentence everywhere in media. "We Chinese people stand up since today."

Love the content brother.

@giorgibregvadze49er

2 жыл бұрын

Me too I just don’t love the intro

@manue3l1976

2 жыл бұрын

@@giorgibregvadze49er lol…The dude like to make an appearance on every video let’s give him a break he seems cool

Brilliant video!

Love your videos

so informative . thank you. pls do one on Jinping as well. thank you.

I like Mao's face expression at the end of the documentary Well done David Ritchii A new subscriber to History Hit ot Timeline Channel

Enjoyed watching Li Bude’s face light up when remembering the events of his Youth. What a life he has had

If the outside world would have just left China alone, then they wouldn't be so strong and powerful as they are today. China said enough is enough. Napoleon warned everyone to let China sleep, but no on listened.

@thursoberwick1948

2 жыл бұрын

The outside world sold them opium.

@EinFelsbrocken

2 жыл бұрын

Noone listened to Napoleon in general; but he remains right in most of his advice even after death. 😆 Apart from his own megalomania; religion still does keep the poor from eating the rich... his army reforms were adopted by everyone else... his "code civil" is the base of many lawbooks nowadays... monarchies faded into unimportance... economy still drives and decides wars... he was a wise man. One more wise man to fall victim to his own narcism; but he had a keen eye for a lot of things.

@macrick

2 жыл бұрын

US is to blame, most investments comes from them.

@thursoberwick1948

2 жыл бұрын

@@EinFelsbrocken A lot of the world is irreligious. It is questionable whether that has happened.

@boonluitang7727

2 жыл бұрын

@@thursoberwick1948 It takes two hands to clap. No buying, no selling.

before sometime of 1928, beijing was the original, historical name for the city. KMT changed the name of the city to "bei ping" since its capital was settled at the city of nanjing.

Nice Lancaster I’ve always wanted to fly in one

I’ve watched so many of these docs and they are great!!! And it’s even better skipping through this cat at the start EVERY singe time 😂😂😭😭

I could be incorrect, but I am assuming that the translators had so much difficulty in translating Mao's voice because Chinese is a tonal language, and due to the poor audio fidelity, they had no tones to go off of to derive meaning from.

Very good!

the intro was insane🤩🤩

What's the background instrumental music that starts at: 2:01? And towards the end at 50:35? Thanks!

honestly, even without english subtitles, i can understand 70%~80% mao's speech. well, i was born in 1950s and am familiar with the jargons back to those days. those young people who have good commanding of english and mandarin, but not jargons of that period of time.

@sz5263

2 жыл бұрын

Agree with you. Born and raised in Shanghai. Fluent in Shanghai dialect and Mandarin. I could understand most of Mao's speech. Not that difficult for me. However I am having difficulties understanding some people's English, e.g. Indian English since I am mostly used to American English. Same as today's young Chinese people mostly grew up with Mandarin. That's why they couldn't understand some dialects in different parts of China.

@williamgordon5708

2 жыл бұрын

I heard from somewhere that it gets worse, and during the last few years of Mao's life, only his personal secretary could understand what the heck he was saying hhh.

@tacticalpossum7090

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you don't have to be a brainiac to get the jist.

@hulugulu7899

2 жыл бұрын

I am a young guy from Sichuan, but I can understand at least 80% of his speech.

@lucaswang2883

2 жыл бұрын

i m sorry to break the truth to you, Mao zedong's speech has more deep meaning than what's shown in the surface, just like an ice berg showing its own peak. You need a philosphy approach to his speech.

Chose this video thinking it was about how Mao rose to power. But it was only about the founding ceremony 😣

@fritzbasset8645

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a nothing video; there are enough puff pieces about the Great Helmsman already.

I just hope all historical documentaries should be at least be accurate as possible just respect to those who came first. Nice Doc. loved it!!

My go to history Channel

Wow...must uncover Mao’s beginning to 1949! Thank you

dope video

This kind of documentaries i figured that make envy to the created

Mandarin is actually Beijing dialect，and Chairman Maos accent is more close to southchina accent，as a native speaker from southern china，although i learn Mandarin in primary school ，i can understand maos lecture by listening the more clear sound footage

I have never traveled to CHINA but I like it's people I've had the pleasure of meeting and someday I hope to go to Beijing china and discovering all its wonders.......

@semiramisubw4864

2 жыл бұрын

there are alot of great places in china. Its in insane huge country. was there 2 times already and going for the next time the pandemic is over.

There’s so many different variations of Chinese. It’s crazy that the language is extremely diverse within different ethnicities. It’s bound to happen over time though due to isolation from other ethics groups. Words change over time as well!!! Linguistics is fascinating

@roymustang5850

2 жыл бұрын

yups it also happend in Russia, Japan and many country they had many variation of dialect depending on where do you live

@georgeeagle872

2 жыл бұрын

That's why China has the common language (普通话 Mandarin Chinese) so people can understand each other.

@baylorsailor

2 жыл бұрын

CCP cover up in my opinion. Whatever Mao is saying must be detrimental to today's CCP narrative. I'm sure plenty of people understand what he was saying.

@breadman5048

2 жыл бұрын

It’s understandable China is huge - look at india; dozens of languages hundreds of dialects

Chairman Mao had a very heavy accent of his home province, it indeed most of the audience may not be able to understand what he was saying at the time but obviously people trusted him so deeply and they felt so confident by just listening to his voice.😁😁

Nice to have a channel with real historic facts. Too many people are getting their alternative facts from celebrities and other “influencers”.

Thank you

Chairman Mao speech was aided by the prepared script which he was holding. Didn't the script been archived by PRC??

@johanqian1858

2 жыл бұрын

do not be stupid,the poem mao wrote no one else in china had the ability to write out.you know nothing

Mao was not backed by Soviet, kMT was backed by Soviet and America and it still lost. Mao was on his own like Ming Dynasty founding emperor.

Its amazing👏👏👏👏

Much respect for China successfully fending of western imperialism, a profoundly difficult achievement. Look at the result of the other major regions that failed in this regard (Africa, India, even aboriginal Australia, etc). Respect to Mao and vast bulk of the ordinary population for protecting China from outside interference. Mao also did the forgotten but crucial work of rural health development programmes saving 100 million lives, and bringing literacy from 15% to 90% by the time Mao retired. Life expectance from 45 to 70. This liberation from Western interference set the conditions to make their industrialisation that followed, and continued improvements to their public's life, being possible.

@neliborba6141

2 жыл бұрын

China has risen with the WEST help, it was the plan of the people behind COMMUNISM. This was not about China only, this regime is a dragon created to devour the world.

@udaykalyan3130

2 жыл бұрын

But only heading for demographic disaster !!

@stevelenores5637

Жыл бұрын

Documentary skips over cities Mao starved into submission. It is why capital surrendered without a fight. Mao killed off about 10% of the Chinese population before his death. Liberation period (civil war), Great Leap Forward, and Cultural Revolution cost the lives of 10s of millions of Chinese in each period of Mao's reign.

@ZaidKhan-dc4wo

Жыл бұрын

@@stevelenores5637 Steve where are the Indians in USA and Canada ?

@stevelenores5637

Жыл бұрын

@@ZaidKhan-dc4wo I'm one of them. What is it you wanted to know? I happen to be in New Mexico.

priceless documentary

If a movie can be made from October 1st. event. IT WOULD BE AWESOME.

How long has Dan been in this bloody plane?!

@BackBruck

2 жыл бұрын

Nevermind the plane, he's been standing in front of Stonehenge in too tight pants for quite a while as well 😅

fantastic, i'm amazing by this documentary. congratulations.

Great video. Why is the narrator so sleepy?

Interesting history

129 landlords disliked this video

Interesting

The Beginning Of The Rising Of The Fiery Dragon..

@georgesnarbonne2892

2 жыл бұрын

One hornet nest which we should not have kicked. Considering the fact that Trump antagonized all of America’ allies, I cannot see them backing the states unless Americans can agree on who one the election very soon.

@wolfofmagdeburg

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgesnarbonne2892 "we"? you aren't American

@georgesnarbonne2892

2 жыл бұрын

@@wolfofmagdeburg I think we are on the same team. Atlantic Canada has and always will have close ties New England. We give Boston a Christmas tree every year to acknowledge their crucial role after the Halifax fire in 1917.

he is a philosophy,stratejist,leader,no match in last 100 years china

Plz next Epistle - China- vietnam war

"son of a peasant farmer". Land owning families during the Qing were part of the upper-middle to upper class. He came from privilege.

@dr.woozie7500

2 жыл бұрын

He was still a “peasant farmer” though, not a merchant, government official, or soldier. Peasants could actually be considered well-off in imperial China.

@JamesBiggar

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, he was middle-upper-middle class to upper-middle class...

@edmundlubega9647

2 жыл бұрын

Whatever. Many revolutionaries did come from affluent backgrounds eg Lenin, Zhou Enlai, Castro etc

@Doug_M

2 жыл бұрын

The peasant thing was made up for propaganda. He didn't want it known that he actually came from landowners.

@Doug_M

2 жыл бұрын

@make a wish Snow was writing communist propaganda for people outside of China.

This looks good.

Chairman MAO gave a very good and inspiring speech. And after all the people of CHINA have been through up until that point (with more to come), you can understand why they were so happy in this moment in time. Great documentary!!!!

Open for business. Really interesting.

中国人民从此站起来了！ The Chinese people hence forth will stand and be the master of their destiny!

Don't understand Mao's fascination with the title "Chairman", could've just used 'President'.

@sampuatisamuel9785

2 жыл бұрын

Chairman Mao probably wanted a title that contrasted with the title for other leaders such as the General Secretary of the USSR or the President of USA

@yuxuancui1676

2 жыл бұрын

chairman is the same as president in Chinese lol

@user-gc5kv3cd7j

2 жыл бұрын

@@yuxuancui1676 no, chairman literally means someone holds the chair in Chinese too which is 主席；while president means someone decides everything which is 总统

Honestly, this one of the best documentry I see bc on other social Media, people are making inappropriate jokes on China that is unbearable. China is always the country that is underated, with people not knowing its history.

@TylerLyon

2 жыл бұрын

No joke is inappropriate. Thats the beauty of freedom.

@lucaswang2883

2 жыл бұрын

@@TylerLyon sorry freedom only caus civil wars and destruction

Yale chose him, Stalin chose him, even the US government chose to work with him instead of helping his rivalry eliminate him, there must be something more in Mao beside being a brutal opportunist

@dvonpache

2 жыл бұрын

Japan's competition to the west over the pacific theater.

@duansteve3698

2 жыл бұрын

the Chinese people chose him

@vietcongwarlord6931

2 жыл бұрын

@@duansteve3698 and they paid for it.

in fact, after giving the speech, Mao published the whole speech on the newspaper. maybe you can get the full text on that day's newspapers, such as 人民日报。it will help your team to understand his words in the vedio

I was shocked all those translators could not understand Mao's speech. Interesting.

@hulugulu7899

2 жыл бұрын

That’s weird, I come from Sichuan, but I still understand most of Mao’s words.

@sampuatisamuel9785

2 жыл бұрын

Pathetic

@donmills5341

Жыл бұрын

Probably because of the audio quality of the record, just like people may not fully understand the announcements at airports or train stations.

Thank you for the efforts to recover the whole speech. It is the first time in my life listened to the whole speech. Mao is a great diplomatic person. Thanks again.

I don't think people quite understand how amazing this must have been for the people to see this parade when they did. Just a few years ago, the Chinese were literally charging Japanese machine guns and tanks with little more than swords, just fighting tooth and nail in the most literal sense to survive a foreign occupation. Most of the population have never seen a Tank or a Plane until a Japanese machine rolled through or over their homes and families. And suddenly, they have their own army, ever soldier armed with a rifle. They have tanks. And they think they have an air force and navy, which were really works in progress but a good show.

@heic1971

2 жыл бұрын

Also by killing 50+ million of it's own people, most without any party affiliation. Just because you're educated, own land or money you were systematically murdered.

@1Invinc

2 жыл бұрын

@@heic1971 That is an ignorant oversimplification of what happened. A more accurate way to described what happened next was that Mao was a military leader but inept at running a country, leading to a 2nd Civil War within the Party that caused widespread chaos and famine.

@heic1971

2 жыл бұрын

@@1Invinc sure, like how mao told people to openly criticize him to run the country better, then rounded up and execute all who disagreed with him? Or that he made everyone that own any wealth being hunted down? My grand parents were hunted have siblings caught and hung. Their crime? They had a farm and money.

@heic1971

2 жыл бұрын

China is great, ccp is the curse, you are here commenting on KZread guessing you’re not in China facing the restrictions like the rest of them by your cult party.

@fritzbasset8645

2 жыл бұрын

@@heic1971 A reformed KMT, backed by the US in the civil war, would have been a much better solution than Chairman Mao replicating Stalin's mistakes from Russia (he even used some of the same terminology "Great Helmsman"), but Owen Lattimore, John Service and John Patton Davies could not allow that. A lot of Chinese (millions) died for nothing and the China we know now was created by Deng Xiaoping. Before the wing flapping starts, my entire in-law family is Chinese, including my father in-law who is a retired party member. I learned all of this from the inside.

why does the presenter make his announcement from a cockpit?🤔

@drsin6856

2 жыл бұрын

Cause he is flying into history 😳

@spideywhiplash

2 жыл бұрын

@@drsin6856 👏😄

Thank u for such great documentary from china . History is history , good or bad, so we remember and learnt from history. So humanity can work together better into future… to the moon & mars … lol…

Then the great leap forward happens.

Timeline has turned into clickbait. This video is not about the rise of Mao, it's about a parade in 1949. I'm done with Timeline, annoying Dan Snow, and all their misleading titles.

@young5969

2 жыл бұрын

I will recommend you a good channel called 李肅Hi5第一頻道, made by a Chinese person. The Chinese man has been studying and exposing the real history of the Chinese Communist Party and its top members.

@sz5263

2 жыл бұрын

@@young5969 Not everything is real in any history written by men. People always try to bring their own opinions into their writings to influence readers, no matter how subtle they are.

"In the end Mao's face says it all". Yeah, it's called Duper's Delight.

@user-fx9rw7xc1e

2 жыл бұрын

It isn't 'Duper's Delight'. Don't make fool of yourself.

Quick, watch it now before it's taken down...

@selenaharrison9546

2 жыл бұрын

For real though.

Mao's Leadership Style is a key symbol for current Chinese Leaders

@Timberwolf1992

2 жыл бұрын

Mao provided the model of party leadership, Deng Xiaoping provided the structure of government administration, Zhou Enlai remains the prototype of diplomacy.

@stevelenores5637

Жыл бұрын

That is an insult to the current leaders because Mao was a psychopath killer playing off one group against another to maintain his iron grip on power. Though you may be right to some extent because Xi has shown his ruthless side from time to time.

He was not a peasant's son, his father was a landlord.

@jameswang9341

2 жыл бұрын

a small landlord, still peasant, just richer than normal peasant. they still did farming by themsevles.

These collective memories bring me into tears

Mao represented a different wing of communism With a raunch confrontation policy with the Soviet block and the West.

So many big mistakes in this documentary. First it wasn't as USSR supported CCP, and US supported Guomindang, in fact both of them supported Guomindang. CCP participation in repealing Japanese was insignificant, it wasn't like they were united with Guomindang.

@miniflem1

2 жыл бұрын

The Communists and the Nationalists united to fight the Japanese invasion, what are you talking about?

@XOPOIIIO

2 жыл бұрын

@@miniflem1 No, Mao's army was hiding while Guomindang resisted.

@miniflem1

2 жыл бұрын

@@XOPOIIIO But they had a truce with each other, you don't know what you're talking about.

@XOPOIIIO

2 жыл бұрын

@@miniflem1 They had truce with Guomindang as well as de facto with Japanese, lol.

@miniflem1

2 жыл бұрын

@@XOPOIIIO Could you provide a link to your source?

Úp chinh la trương hoan tiên, con cua ong trương văn my

For all of Mao's faults, he was the one responsible for freeing China from foreign oppression, eliminating opium addiction and criminal gangs, and practically doubling literacy in under a decade - these are feats that can't be overlooked, no matter how much criticism the later years of his rule gets.

@arnaldobellucci9033

2 жыл бұрын

He eliminated addiction killing the addicts, efficient method indeed.

@ShHeMiLeRe

2 жыл бұрын

I mean despite all of the tens of millions of dead due to Mao's tyrannical rule the trains run on time.

@clivebaxter6354

2 жыл бұрын

He did not free China from oppression, the nationalist defeated the Japanese then the CCP created present day oppression of Chinese people

@arnaldobellucci9033

2 жыл бұрын

@make a wish LoL.

@canqingzhang5076

2 жыл бұрын

@@clivebaxter6354 seems like you are brain washed

He decided to flex his muscle after the bombings of Japan. They were scared to death of the Japanese.

@mylife70777

2 жыл бұрын

Now a days Japan in hentai and colony of usa

@EinFelsbrocken

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldve been scared too. They may have been defeated; but the horrors of war (the horrors that were cauded by Japanese at least) still happened only a few years back.

@arhelioss

2 жыл бұрын

@@EinFelsbrocken I'ts insane

John Cena's biggest idol

@yootaobe5536

2 жыл бұрын

Zhong Xina

Love how he says his name lol.

What? I can understand 90% what he said here, why do you guys keep saying you don't understand what he said?

@zzhou4564

2 жыл бұрын

Because they're 南郭先生

Obviously the western jourlist was fooled by his Chinese colleague. I was born in 70s and foreign to Hunan dialects, but am able to understand at least half of the speech.

The whole "how we found this" part is drawn out and a little lame. Made me lose interest. I'm here to learn about Mao, not learn about you learning about Mao.

Does this cover the $2T in defaulted sovereign debt that China owes Americans?

@jeffreybeckham1130

2 жыл бұрын

Not even close

@clivebaxter6354

2 жыл бұрын

how much has their virus cost the world?

@georgesnarbonne2892

2 жыл бұрын

Considering that the “Spanish flu” originated in the US, it would make a calculation of who owes what.

@clivebaxter6354

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgesnarbonne2892 The Spanish flu originated in China, it's an old theory it started in the US, brought there by Chinese workers www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health

@budg7525

2 жыл бұрын

@@clivebaxter6354 Not THEIR virus!!! The Lab was sponsored by the REAL Axis of Evil, the good ol' U.S.A. The TRUTH will out!!!

Mao Zedong was speaking in tongues you know, like the priests use to do with Latin. Only God can understand it 🤷🏿‍♂️

The Chinese can fully understand it, but the sound quality is too poor.

I am from Hunan province, China.

@xiaofu7883

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand what Chairman Mao said.

I want to ask Chinese people as well as those who know about Chinese diplomacy, what if Communists had not won the war and kuomintang would have the main party of China? Could it affect policy of present stance if party would be different or the situation would be most probably Same?

@zackbot8643

2 жыл бұрын

1 kmt had no chance to win civil war after 1947.even if there is an election in 1948, kmt will lose.accepting the offer of coalition government in 1945 was the best outcome. 2 the situation would be most probably same if this new china decided not to be a factory country but a innovative countries.different party same country,it's not about the political system,it's all about the money and power. example:russia. USSR died ,but russia stil have power(military),so it's USA‘s enemy.

@abeu

2 жыл бұрын

KMT wouldn't have been able to keep the country together, they never really had the support of the peasants, which were the majority. Hence why they lost the civil war.

@user-zs4tz2ei8i

2 жыл бұрын

@@abeu The KMT is issuing banknotes indiscriminately, and all classes no longer support them

@SuperFukuman

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-zs4tz2ei8i rings a bell

@user-eo4my6yr6p

Жыл бұрын

如果当初的内站国民党胜了，那么如今的中国一定会沦为像印度一样。中共胜国民党的一系列战争足以让毛称神。让蒋介石恨到让人挖了毛家祖坟。

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Seriously? These English-speaking translators can't understand MAO Zedong? I can understand 90% of it 😂

Two 19 second adds before this starts thumbs down ... unwatchable God only knows how many more there are..

赤色旗幟將在全球飄揚

@lizabethgussman331

2 жыл бұрын

Would you please translate? Thank you.

@arthurwang9356

2 жыл бұрын

@@lizabethgussman331 The red flag will plant all over the world , It means that this world must become communism, people all over the world united to fight against the capitalists，and finally achieve the true democracy.

@liam7903

2 жыл бұрын

@@arthurwang9356 no. the red flag means conquering and enslaving uneducated masses.

@yuxuancui1676

2 жыл бұрын

@@liam7903 sounds like what Britain and America has done

Wonder how the world would have turned out if Chiang had actually done an air raid during this speech.

I watched the documentary... Now, where are my social credits?

40:58

I always wondered how all those people marching could not need to go to the bathroom during those long, huge parades. Now I know.😯⌚🌅😥💩🚽😏

Ya boi Mao coming straight from the underground

Disgusting to see how reverential these people are to the greatest mass murderer in history.

@turdferguson353

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not just "following orders" ... That's the typical excuse

@Malikin

2 жыл бұрын

in that case you shall define "revere"

@DaniboyBR2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Malikin Just compare how they portray Hitler's Nazis that killed 20 million people to Mao and Stálin's Communists that killed close to 100 million people if not more.

@mjolninja9358

2 жыл бұрын

You guys are being self-righteous as if you would be different if you were their place? People aren’t born angels or devils.

@Guinness1066

2 жыл бұрын

Thank God the Republic of China is still a free and democratic nation 🇹🇼✌🏽☘

No comment about him being part of the Yale club?