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YOU LIKE HIM.
AN OCEAN OF HEART.
OUR DAUGHTER WAS GRADUATING FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
AND WE WENT VERY HAPPILY TO THE
GRADUATION.
THREE AND A HALF HOURS LATER
AFTER HIS ONE AND A HALF HOUR
GRADUATION SPEECH, WE LEFT.
NONETHELESS, HUBERT HUMPHREY, TO
ME, WAS INDEED THE HAPPY
WARRIOR, WHICH IT WAS A NAME
GIVEN TO AL SMITH.
BUY?
WHO GIVES IT?
THE BECAUSE AND THE HAPPY
WARRIOR AT THE CONVENTION?
-- WHO CALLS HIM AND THE HAPPY
WARRIOR AT THE CONVENTION?
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT.
1948, HE LEADS THE WALK OUT
OF THE DIXIECRATS.
HE TELLS THE DEMOCRATS, IT IS
TIME TO EMERGE FROM THE SHADOW
OF STATES' RIGHTS AND AN URGE
INTO THE SUNSHINE OF HIS -- AND
MARCH INTO THE SUNSHINE OF HUMAN
RIGHTS.
IT IS ONE OF THE GREAT MOMENTS
OF HISTORY THAT EVERY DEMOCRAT
SHOULD BE PROUD OF.
THAT IS WHAT I THINK.
HE WAS MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS THAT
TIME.
HE ALSO TRANSFORMED THE LIVES
PRESIDENCY AND A SURPRISING WAY
BECAUSE HE HAD SUCH A MISERABLE
EXPERIENCE UNDER LYNDON JOHNSON
FROM 1965-1969.
HIS FELLOW MINNESOTA ANDNN WALTER
MONDALE WAS OFFERED A JOB BY
JIMMY CARTER, AND AS A RESULT
OF WHAT HE LEARNED FROM HUBERT
HUMPHREY, HE BECAME THE MODERN
VICE PRESIDENT.
HE HAD HIS OWN OFFICE IN THE
WHITE HOUSE.
BUILDING.
HE WAS NOT IN A SEPARATE
HE WAS NOT FOB OFF ON THE SPACE
PROGRAM OR WHAT EVER ELSE
PRESIDENTS GIVE THEIR VICE
PRESIDENTS TO FILL TIME.
WE COULD TALK ABOUT HIM FOR
90 MINUTES.
THE HAPPY WARRIOR THING WITH HIM
WAS GENUINE.
BILLY GRAHAM TOLD ME THIS STORY.
IF YOU EVER HEAR BILLY GRAHAM'S
IMITATING HUBERT HUMPHREY'S
BOYS, HE IS QUITE GOOD AT IT
ACTUALLY.
-- VOICE, HE IS QUITE GOOD AT IT
ACTUALLY.
HE MISSED AN -- HE MOVES TO THE
GOVERNMENT.
STATE THAT HAS THE CLEANEST
HE IS SWIMMING AT THE YMCA.
MEN'S SWIM ALTOGETHER.
HE IS RESTING OUTSIDE THE POOL
AND HUBERT LUMBERS OVER TO HIM.
HE REACHES DOWN AND INSISTS ON
BILLY GRAHAM'S.
SHAKING HANDS AND SAYS, HELLO,
I AM HUBERT HUMPHREY.
I'M RUNNING FOR MAYOR.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE YOUR VOTE.
GOLDWATER.
WE NEED TO GO TO BARRY
DO WE REALLY NEED TO?
CAN I SAY ONE MORE THING ABOUT
HUBERT?