Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Living to the age of 94, Samuelson outlived many of his generation and had many occasions to reflect on economists he had known. He had always been an inveterate storyteller, absorbing, and remembering gossip about economists, and he drew on this extensively in his later years. Such reflections on economists he had known would segue into reflections on his own life and times, in which his years at Harvard in the late 1940s figured prominently. This chapter covers this work, as well as debates he had with specialists in the history of economics over how one should approach the subject, and culminates in an account of his reaction to Milton Friedman’s death, shortly after which he died.</jats:p>