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>> good to be with you. >> bill, thank you very much. thank you for being here and so take us back to this -- you were in the white house when muohammd ali defied the draft. vietnam was the biggest issue in the country at the time in terms of the tensions of the country which was just almost coming out of but not quite coming out of the tensions in the civil rights movement and still very active. >> he was -- he was -- let's say protocol conscious in terms of attacking dissenters, publicly or people who disagreed with him. privately he often said very harsh things about them, particularly as t...

Protocol conscious in terms of attacking dissenters, publicly or people who disagreed with him. privately he often said very harsh things about them, particularly as the war in vietnam escalated and as it then became a quagmire. >> yes. >> he felt they were communists on the left. he said privately, i don't know if he thought it and would say privately on telephone tapes, communists stirring up trouble. they don't want us to win in vietnam and rarely did the public hostility -- did the hostility become publicly. the vietnam series quoted as being very harsh about protesters outside of the whit...