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In a 2001 interview with the [[New York Times]], Ayers would later say, ""I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough."
In a 2001 interview with the [[New York Times]], Ayers would later say, ""I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough."
==Friendship with Barack Obama==
==Relationship with Barack Obama==
From 1993 to 2002, Obama joined Ayers in a nine member board Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty foundation. While running for the state Senate in Illinois in 1995, Ayers meet with Obama and would later introduce him at his house. Barack Obama was asked over the controversy in an April 2008 Presidential debate by moderator George Stephanopoulos.
From 1993 to 2002, Obama joined Ayers in a nine member board Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty foundation. While running for the state Senate in Illinois in 1995, Ayers meet with Obama and would later introduce him at his house. Barack Obama was asked over the controversy in an April 2008 Presidential debate by moderator George Stephanopoulos.
''"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of [[English]] in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense, George"''
''"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of [[English]] in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense, George"''
==References==
==References==