peter radino, we passed the fair housing bill in a month. peter almost lost re-election in newark in 1968 because he was the floor manager for that bill. he barely won. but then years later as he had won black primary opponent after another, he kept beating them. because of what he did on the fair housing bill. and the other thing, let me just -- bill knows this. i mean he had a phenomenal sense of humor. i mean, i think back to those awful riots after the king assassination. i would keep bringing him reports from the fbi, one city after another. we had to bring in troops. and we kept doing that. and then, i got this message about stokley carmichael. he said stokley carmichael is organizing a mob at the corner of 14th and u streets to march on georgetown and burn it down. georgetown was where all of these columnists and tv commentators that were driving johnson crazy lived. and johnson looked at it and read it, and said, god damn, i waited 35 years for this night. >> two other quick nights point that. >> i want to say as a critic on the vietn