the one other major maxim of george tindall, he had a clio's deck log. clio is the muse of historians. in his 10 commandments of the muse, number nine is thou shall not pass judgment on mankind nor pardon any man or woman for anything. thou may seek the reason for error but neither text skews nor the blame, vengeance is mine , sayeth the muse. so those are the two key points that i went out in to the world trying to research this topic. one that i wanted to form my own conclusions and two, that i was not in the business of passing judgment. so some people have criticized me for not being harder on the segregationists or not being, you know, praising the good guys and damning the bad guys. but i don't think that's what my job is. my job is to gather the material in as full and balanced and fair way as i can and tell the story fully. and it's up to you as an intelligent reader to draw your own conclusions. ok. so let me tell you what did happen here, and the story is very complicated and it can be confusing. so pay attention. [laughter] betsy: this is, i'm