I really wanted to be a hippy Interview with the US Ambassador Jeffrey Levine. Published Eesti Ekpress 13 March Most people believe that for security, Estonia must always look to the United States, not to Europe. With Russia flexing its muscles again, now would be a good time to look at the U.S. Ambassador, to find out what kind of person he is, and what forces have shaped him. The good news, for Estonia, is that Jeff Levine, the boyish, 59 year old US representative, to paraphrase Sally Field's Oscar infamous acceptance speech; " really, really, likes Estonia."" The bad news, for hawkish Estonians, is Levine is not a warrior, at heart he is a hippy. Love and peace, man, make love not war, troops out of Vietnam, all of that. "I am a bit too young to be a hippy, but I really wanted to be," Levine clarifies. "I was 15 in 1970, I was never a punk. Hippy was the last movement I really embraced," he said.