i don t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts. what role race played in that? but i think it s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly. in arresting somebody, when there was already proof that they were in their own home. and not only did that cause a firestorm, as you will recall. you were already in the press, at that time. yes. but subsequent polling showed that my support among white voters dropped, more precipitously, after that that should have been a minor, trivial incident, than anything else during my presidency. that s extraordinary. well, and it gives a sense of the degree to which these things are, still you know, they re they re deep in us.
a revolution but the underlying conflicts remained yet it was more than two hundred years before the second act of the drama took place. the place rock county the year sixteen eighteen the twenty third of may i remember it as if it were yesterday from this window to hated arch catholic imperial emissaries were thrown to land more or less softly on a convenient dung hill. there it was then the second and more fateful defenestration of prague a trivial incident in itself but it s far better off than thirty years of war. it turned central europe into one great battlefield my country was in the middle of it