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Plus give the cspan capitol tour continues. We are at our fifth up outside the statehouse in Richmond Virginia and joining us on the cspan bus is former Virginia Governor doug wilder who served from 19921994. Governor wilders the grandson of slaves the first africanamerican governor in the u. S. Since reconstruction. Governor wilder in your recent autobiography you write that you are product of the state, the good, the bad and the ugly. What did he mean by that . Well as you pointed out being the grandson of slaves one would never expect that person to be the governor of the state to occupy the same seat as Patrick Henry and thomas jefferson. So to the extent that those travails overcome it was a testament to show what the people of virginia had gone through in making sure that image didnt continue. I like to think ....

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