From a segment broadcast on radio station WOR in New York on September 15.

announcer: Celebrating the bicentennial of the United States Constitution, this is A More Perfect Union: Prominent Americans Reflect on Our Constitution.

morehead kennedy: My name is Morehead Kennedy. In 1979, I was the acting head of the economic section at our embassy in Tehran, and I was held hostage for 444 days. You don’t appreciate what freedom is until you’ve been deprived of it.

When I came home my first instinctive reaction was to go shopping.…