ABSTRACT
Truth be told, I was supposed to be about 80 miles further north along the California coast. On this beautiful mid-June day, instead of working through dusty stacks of archives at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, I was taking in the first round of the 2000 U.S. Open golf tournament at Pebble Beach. It wasn’t the first time that I’d visited America’s most famous seaside golf course; in the early 1990s, a group of us would head south and west to take in the sights at the Bing Crosby Pro-Am, now the AT&T Pro-Am. The tournament was a unique mixture of professional golf and People Magazine: Clint Eastwood was a regular attendee; so was Kevin Costner and a host of professional athletes.
