of history. also, the gravitas of the president. atlanta is the cradle of the civil rights movement and to bring the weight of the symbolic weight and significance of recent history to bear on this issue, i think it was very important for us to understand that our democracy, as a multiracial democracy, we are very young. we haven't been a multiracial democracy, i would argue, lawrence, since 1965. and that was barely then because you remember we -- it took us a while to implement the voting rights act in 1965. by the time reagan was elected in is the 80, he was selected to undo the gains of the civil rights movement. to go to atlanta is to give us a sense of the importance, the significance of the moment. and this is why i think the president insisted that you have to choose a side. either you are going to be for democracy or you're not. you are going to be for voter suppression or you're not. you are going to be for voter subversion or you're not. i think making that choice lets us know the stakes of the game.