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Process. But there were the injustices that i saw happening. I always said later, i wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. I really wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. Because i saw things and know things and could have, in my little mind could have done things that would have helped solve some problems. Can you give us examples . This whole incarceration and how it works. What you do to people. You take these young people and put them in there and you collectify them. If they have a drug issue and they are in there and theres more drugs, you are cr...

And mitchell said, mr. President elect, i cant go with you. And a tear comes down his face. And he says, ive got to go to connecticut and figure out what to do about martha. She was in an institution up in connecticut at that point. So her problem really was severe then. And she gets out. Shes in this washington environment with all this stuff going on. And it was just a tragic story. And she was not a well person. You mentioned you were a point of contact . She liked to call the president. She liked to call my president. So she would call. And the system had been arranged by which i would get...

Indicted. So the grand jury is early 73. Then a period of six months when it looks like you might not be indicted. The saturday night massacre is october of 73 . Right. I was indicted in november. So you thought this might go away . Yeah. It started paling in relationship to Everything Else. The dirty tricks thing was just such an amateurish rinky dink thing. Was it wrong . Did segretti do things wrong . Yes. He admitted he did. He took responsibility for it. Did i lie . I didnt think so. Did i try to mislead the grand jury . There was no question, by the way, when you read the grand jury thin...

Now i am very pleased to introduce tonight speaker. Edward baptists associate professor of history at cornel university. Originally from durham north carolina, he is also the coeditor with the late stephanie camp of new studies in the history of american slavery and the louis hyman of american capitalism a reader ebook from simon schuster. The l. A. Times calls the half has never been told an ambitious new economic and social history of america and Peniel Joseph director of the center for the study of race and democracy at Tufts University writes that it is a true marvel. Groundbreaking thorou...