union? >> who knows, i just wanted to ask you that question. have you resigned? >> from the youth? >> from the young communists? >> you grow out of it with age. automatically. >> did you -- did you send them a letter, though, resigning? >> senator, this was many, many years ago, as far as i remember how the soviet union worked, at a certain age, you automatically stop being a member. >> could you look at your records and see if you can find a copy -- i don't mean any disrespect, i don't know whether to call you professor or comrade. >> senator, i am not a communist. >> that was republican senator john kennedy of louisiana interrogating cornell professor soule omarova, born in the soviet union where membership was compulsory, which explained the red bating from the senator.