but the folks here in new hampshire who do, and do, and do, say this isn t the whole story, that this man who is leaving found himself beaten up by the white house, being one upped by folks there, and he had enough and quit. is that a fair assessment of things? guest: i think it could be partly true in the sense that he was being eclipsed by others, other senior advisors who are more outfront with the president dating back to the first 2008 campaign. a lot of people have missed is that when he was name add year ago there was a wide assumption, she from chicago, he is part of that elite group of close knit advisor whose have known president obama for a long time, that not the case. these two men did not know that well. they are both from chicago but different generations and not time the way this president is with rahm emanuel or axelrod so i don t think it was nasty but i
there were like four calls because the very first one was before i got in my car to go to athens. she said i was being put on administrative leave. the next call after i sat waiting and waiting because she told me she would call me right back, the next call said that they re going to have to ask me to resign. do you feel as though you had an opportunity to state your side of the story? no, i didn t. the administration, they were not interested in hearing the truth. no one wanted to hear the truth. the naacp released a statement late last night saying in part we are appalled by her actions. that is an opportunity to explain what happened 24 years ago. do you feel as though you got that opportunity, even in a phone call with the naacp?
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herself. thanks for being with us this morning, shirleshirley. thank you. you say this was part of the story and that it was part that was spliced enough to show you in a bad light, that this isn t the whole story. will you finish for us how this ened? okay. i was speaking to that group like i ve done many groups and i tell them about a time when i thought the issue was race and race only. and i tell them the story of how i worked with a white farmer back in 1986. i was not working for the department of agriculture. i was working with and non-profit organization assisting farmers throughout south georgia and the southeast. and this farmer came to me for help. i was telling the story about how working with him helped me to see that the issue is not about race, it s about those who