. >> ernie johnson, serving 26 years for robbery, was sent to ad seg for assaulting another inmate. >> i got into a fight. i have a real problem with child molesters and i don't like them around me. i don't want them near me. i don't even want them in this prison. as far as i'm concerned, they can die. and when they get around me and they start talking and they think it's okay to reveal that they're child molesters, every time they say that, i'm going to smash them. >> seg gates. >> before an inmate is sent to ad seg, he must first serve time in the i-detention unit or idu. in this highly secure cellblock offenders have even fewer privileges and almost no contact with each other. >> kind of like the prisoner jail inside the prison. they're not allowed to have hot pots up here or anything they can cook with. they have limited property they're allowed to have up here. anytime they come out of their cell they have to be restrained behind their back with an escort. the offenders that are up here are the most violent offenders in the prison so at any time, i mean, they might try to reach o

preempt ernie talking about that, but little rock is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what eisenhower was doing. >> could he have -- you know, later on we'll be discussing jfk and lyndon johnson, but -- and so the conversation is that had not kennedy laid out what could happen, that johnson could not have picked it up if truman had not begun the process of desegregating the military, even though you say eisenhower was critical of him not taking it far enough, could he have done what he did? >> no. i think he stood on truman's shoulders. eisenhower introduced legislation, particularly introduced it first in 1956, didn't go anywhere. he reintroduced it in 1957, legislation that in the history books gets credit for passing. but eisenhower and his attorney general brown proposed it. that legislation was built essentially on the foundation that truman had laid with his commission to declare these rights presented by the civil rights commission, the civil rights division and the justice department. those kind of reforms. eisenhower picked those up, and those were essentially truman proposals initially. he could never get through the congress, and truman deserves credit for proposin