but that language went on to be part of first the economic bill that peron mitchell had. then it went on with ron dellum through the defense bills. and it was language that no one even realized was going into federal law but made a tremendous amount of difference. obviously the role that nixon played during the time he was there, i was there during his impeachment era. but the role that he played, which was one that was very divisive. it was divisive in the sense that he wanted to remove many of those equal opportunity statutes and organizations. at the same time he was able to cater to small business interests with some of those things he put forward. so that there was an attempt to really divide african-americans in terms of their interests, those who had small business interests which we all had, from those who also believed that you had to have affirmative action, you had to have economic opportunity on a much broader face than just the financial ability to have small business programs. and we were able to work that out. because i believe there were some people who fe