The "Leadership" in this show's title refers to perceived heroism; "the loss of the

American hero" was the subject Mr. McGinniss was currently writing about. Why, e.g., did Charles Lindbergh keep his hold on the American imagination, whereas Neil Armstrong, as Mr. McGinniss puts it, just five years after he became the first man to walk on the Moon, "has really disappeared back into obscurity and no one has seemingly missed him"? Mr. Kempton, in his dry way, adds perspective to this leisurely and rich conversation: "I don't think, since both Mencken and Ring Lardner flourished in the Twenties, that hero worship was absolutely something that existed then and does not exist now."