and i got this message about stokley carmichael. and there was a -- it was a report. i brought it over to the mansion. johnson read it. said stokley carmichael is organizing a mob at the corner of 14th and u streets to march on georgetown and burn it down. well, georgetown is where all these columnists and tv commentators that were driving johnson crazy lived. and johnson looked at it, read it, he said goddamn, i've waited 35 years for this night. [ laughter ] >> two other quick points on that. >> let senator mcgovern was just wanting to say something here. >> i just wanted to say as a critic on the vietnam issue, that before i went into politics, i was a history professor. do you believe that? >> yeah, i do. >> anyway, i used the gi bill to go all the way through northwestern university to a ph.d in history. and i think, just thinking about what johnson did on civil rights, what he did on poverty, what he did on education, all these other things, that whole great society, program, those were good ideas. some people ridicule the great society. why would you ridicule a