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when I got that and the bar, the previous bar to you and some of you here, gave me a party down at the Yacht Club. Senator Eastland came down for it. And you gave me a double barrel shotgun as a going away gift. At that time I didn't know how appropriate that gift was, but later on it became very and most appropriate because whenever I took this job, and in the beginning of the civil rights days when we had all the crime and all of these criminal cases coming up, I see, "Yee, Gods, what have I gotten myself into." And there was a many, many times that I wanted to turn back, except for Senator Eastland and Senator Stennis, I kept prodding on there. And five different divisions we went and putting out fires and so forth, and we had every type of case known, none of them we had ever heard of before, some of them; redistricting the board of supervisors, just like the one here. I think we did redirect this one. We did redistrict the one in Harrison County. That cleared up some stuff there too. We had the reapportionment of the State Legislature three times. Judge Coleman, Judge Cox and I.
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER