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among us. >> reporter: and, as a writer who regularly put his own views on display, he learned about himself, too, in front of our eyes. >> but i do care. i care a lot. >> reporter: a self-described lifelong liberal, he entered world war ii as a passivist. but, after seeing the horrors of the concentration camps, he came to believe, as he told tom brokaw, that some wars are necessary. >> the germans had been wrong in starting it. and i decided i had been wrong in objecting to the war. >> reporter: and when his essays outraged some, comments critical of homosexuals or dead rock star kurt cobain, he apologized and and meant it and carried on. >> i know i've been terribly wrong sometimes. but i think i've been right more often than i've been wrong. >> reporter: a voice for the thoughts of every man, silenced as he knew it would be. >> i wish i could do this forever. i can't, though. >> reporter: but a voice as memorable as that ticking clock, the last few minutes for three decades his. mike taibbi, nbc news, new york.