 So my takeaway is having grown up in the Nixon era and having a certain take on who Richard Nixon was, it was on the one hand, the idea that my hero, Duke Ellington, was there with a guy who wasn't my hero named Richard Nixon. It seemed like a contradiction to me. And yet it was a perfect reflection of who Ellington was. It was partly that blacks of that era, and it was actually in the Kennedy White House that this changed, but blacks from the days of