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they did not use your Data Black pollings?

Clark:

Yes, and of course you understand correctly. You barely understood what you knew. [laughter]

Q:

Also, did I understand correctly or did I know, they used Gallup poll for some of that work?

Clark:

Right.

Q:

Can you recall what your understanding was as to why they used Gallup?

Clark:

Well, Percy Sutton and I who were partners on the Data Black thing were not consulted. Interesting enough, we had just resigned before we found this out. But if we had found it out before we resigned we would have resigned much less statesman-like. To me that was unforgivable because Percy and I were co-founders of the Joint Center.

Q:

Well, since this center was set out to--somebody characterized it to me as a black think tank.

Clark:

Who did?

Q:

What?





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