and the person who introduced him was a lot young law student by the name of flint taylor, who is sitting in the front row. [applause] >> and apparently, i wasn't there, but fled with the introduction with dread, so when fred got up, he chided clinton said, well you better get it together. but he also knew that flint had helped him get out on appeal bond. and as you know, flint has gotten it together. i don't want to spend rest of that talk about his incompetence, but anyway, another person was very much touched and moved by fred hampton. if you had told me a few years ago that i would be standing here talking about a book that i had written, not to mention a personal narrative, i really wouldn't have believed you. i was a lawyer. i didn't even take lee love writing. somebody i saw from years ago breezily in seattle said but you didn't even like to write. and it's true, i must say, i let most of the brief writings got to my partners. but somehow, when i stopped doing the day-to-day work of civil rights law, fighting the government in court every day, i had enough time, a little time to re