WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.380 --> 00:00:39.000 The worst thing that could happen to me would be that he'd think I know my boy very well. 2 00:00:45.340 --> 00:00:48.360 You're not recording all of this now, are you? 3 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:56.500 Okay. Mr. Pumphrey, just why are you doing this campaigning? 4 00:00:58.260 --> 00:01:08.160 Well, because I feel that it's very important that people will have a chance to know the wife of the candidate 5 00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:15.660 and a little more about the family, and get to know the senator this way, 6 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:25.180 so that they know him as a whole person, and perhaps realize that some of the legislation 7 00:01:25.180 --> 00:01:30.220 and his ideals and politics are based on reality. 8 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:37.600 And well, actually I think the getting acquainted with the candidate's wife is most important. 9 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:43.040 I think it's very important too. But are you particularly anxious to get him in the White House? 10 00:01:43.540 --> 00:01:45.300 That seems to be your reason. 11 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:52.400 Well, I'd like to see him be present. I haven't thought much about our getting to the White House. 12 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:55.060 I think he'd make a marvelous present. 13 00:01:55.980 --> 00:01:59.220 This is terrible. Let's not do this. 14 00:02:05.940 --> 00:02:09.360 You don't have to put a finger in it. 15 00:02:09.420 --> 00:02:09.820 No! 16 00:02:15.740 --> 00:02:30.940 Good thing. Actually, the growth of my coming into Wisconsin started because I had come with the senator last fall 17 00:02:30.940 --> 00:02:34.060 and done some campaigning with him. 18 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:43.060 And then we decided that perhaps it would be a good thing for me to go around the state, various parts of it, 19 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:52.200 to help get people acquainted with him and why I'm campaigning for him. 20 00:02:52.200 --> 00:03:04.380 So that, and while he's in the Senate, that I could be here and this way we could be real partnership, 21 00:03:05.100 --> 00:03:10.040 partnership in sort of using our time to the best advantage. 22 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:16.160 I must say with all of the press that it's a little self-conscious and sticky today. 23 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.600 I do feel so much at home with you people, this group. 24 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:24.460 It seems like you didn't ask that she had gray hair. 25 00:03:24.780 --> 00:03:25.500 Oh, yes. 26 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:26.660 I hear about that. 27 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:28.780 That's right. I forgot about that. 28 00:03:30.880 --> 00:03:40.400 The first night that we were there, we went into a guy was saying that he can afford, and he's a bachelor, 29 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:46.960 and one suit cost him a month and a half, and they don't buy a lot of clothing. 30 00:03:48.040 --> 00:03:56.640 The children, however, are very well dressed, excellently dressed, and warmly dressed, and very much so. 31 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:06.620 I feel that you were experienced in being able to talk to Mr. Kroosdorf the way he did. 32 00:04:08.140 --> 00:04:15.860 They always make the comments that Humphrey talks so long, no wonder it took him eight and a half hours to talk to Kroosdorf. 33 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:25.980 But actually, and he took notes, and Sen. did most of the questioning, and Mr. Kroosdorf did most of the talking. 34 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:33.560 I think after seeing him here in this country, you would realize that that's more true than when we first came back. 35 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.640 Everybody thought that Humphrey did all the talking. 36 00:04:37.640 --> 00:04:42.780 But they had a spirit and a very interesting conversation. 37 00:04:43.020 --> 00:04:44.480 The campaigning is in full swing. 38 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:53.860 The wife of a factory worker, Mrs. Orville Rigsby, has invited several friends over to meet the wife of a presidential aspirant, Mrs. Hubert Humphrey. 39 00:05:00.100 --> 00:05:08.100 Out in the political hinterland, this quiet neighborhood in Racine, Wisconsin, a comparatively new type of campaigning is in full swing. 40 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:17.360 The wife of a factory worker, Mrs. Orville Rigsby, has invited several friends over to meet the wife of a presidential aspirant, Mrs. Hubert Humphrey. 41 00:05:30.700 --> 00:05:40.220 I have come over as a neighbor to your great state to tell you that, of course, we think Sen. Humphrey is a great leader. 42 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:43.120 He has been a great leader of our people. 43 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:47.320 We have had confidence in him, and we will always have confidence in him. 44 00:05:47.320 --> 00:05:50.680 So I am going along with Mrs. Hubert Humphrey. 45 00:05:50.980 --> 00:06:03.140 I'll try to do my part for her and in a little way bring greetings from Minnesota and tell you that Mrs. Humphrey is going to tell in her way about a wonderful senator we have, Mrs. Humphrey. 46 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:13.320 I think our meeting, our group getting together here has gotten a little formalized. 47 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:17.320 It's all misunderstanding. 48 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.400 I guarantee you I am not making a speech. 49 00:06:22.300 --> 00:06:36.780 But with everyone gathered around and sitting quietly, you know it's almost a Humphrey trick or a habit that once the dinner forks rattle, it doesn't take a hat anymore. 50 00:06:37.060 --> 00:06:38.720 You just start making a speech. 51 00:06:40.180 --> 00:06:56.240 So the reason that we are here is for you folks to get better acquainted with me and through getting better acquainted with me, get to know my husband, Sen. Humphrey. 52 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:15.640 And I have had the good fortune to have so many good friends in Wisconsin who felt that as long as Hubert Humphrey had to be a senator, as well as a candidate this year, that he could perhaps share me with you folks as well as the family. 53 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.460 And this way I become kind of a split personality. 54 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:26.420 The story background of all the lights and cameras and everything is that this is more or less a first. 55 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:30.620 And I know the people in Wisconsin love to be first with things. 56 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:34.620 Minnesota people I think are going to be a little jealous. 57 00:08:00.060 --> 00:08:00.120 Thank you. 58 00:08:30.060 --> 00:08:30.120 Thank you. 59 00:09:00.060 --> 00:09:00.120 Thank you. 60 00:09:30.060 --> 00:09:30.120 Thank you. 61 00:10:00.060 --> 00:10:00.120 Thank you. 62 00:10:30.060 --> 00:10:30.120 Thank you. 63 00:11:00.060 --> 00:11:00.120 Thank you. 64 00:11:30.060 --> 00:11:30.120 Thank you. 65 00:12:00.060 --> 00:12:00.120 Thank you. 66 00:12:30.060 --> 00:12:30.120 Thank you. 67 00:13:00.060 --> 00:13:00.120 Thank you. 68 00:13:22.400 --> 00:13:23.800 Thank you. 69 00:13:23.800 --> 00:13:24.440 Thank you. 70 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:24.460 Thank you. 71 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.940 Thank you. 72 00:13:27.940 --> 00:13:27.940 73 00:13:28.460 --> 00:13:28.500 Thank you. 74 00:13:28.500 --> 00:13:29.900 Thank you. 75 00:13:29.900 --> 00:13:30.180 Thank you. 76 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:32.600 Thank you. 77 00:13:34.180 --> 00:13:35.720 Thank you. 78 00:13:38.940 --> 00:13:40.340 Thank you. 79 00:13:40.340 --> 00:13:40.340 80 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.400 Thank you. 81 00:13:42.400 --> 00:13:42.840 Thank you. 82 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:43.900 Thank you. 83 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:58.020 In these 23 years of exciting and happy years with Hubert, especially the last 11 years in Washington as Senator's wife, 84 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:03.180 it's been an adventure and discovery with him in a new world. 85 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.620 In each person and in all the people we have come to know together. 86 00:14:08.540 --> 00:14:17.220 Now if Nancy or the boys were here to speak of their father, I think they would tell you what they have learned from him. 87 00:14:17.860 --> 00:14:28.360 What loyalty to a principal means, what courage is, and how a sense of humor that helps one laugh at oneself confirm even the fragile poise of youth. 88 00:14:29.740 --> 00:14:36.600 In a recent article about Hubert I found this quotation which I think typifies him as well as one can in a few words. 89 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:49.480 No one else in the Senate, for that matter few others anywhere in American politics, is quite so intensely fascinated with so many things about this earth as he. 90 00:14:51.220 --> 00:14:56.900 Being a rather dedicated person myself, I feel that the part I play in Hubert's life, 91 00:14:56.900 --> 00:15:06.440 giving him a free go-ahead towards accomplishing the ideals and goals that we truly seek in this world, is my best way to help. 92 00:15:07.160 --> 00:15:09.720 This is what I am doing here with you people. 93 00:15:10.300 --> 00:15:14.320 Through him I too can feel I've added to a better world. 94 00:15:15.400 --> 00:15:16.500 Togetherness, yes. 95 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:18.720 And a team, yes. 96 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.780 We share our abilities for the greatest good. 97 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:28.600 This I felt typifies my part in his campaign this year. 98 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:34.780 It stemmed way back last year, long before we knew how involved in things that, 99 00:15:36.700 --> 00:15:44.180 and even whether we, long before we knew that we would be a primary candidate running for the office in the state of Wisconsin. 100 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:49.820 Our neighbor state, and you know it truly was a neighbor state this morning. 101 00:15:49.820 --> 00:15:56.740 We had coffee with the most wonderful group of Scandinavian friends, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, 102 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:02.400 and shared their coffee cakes and, anything you want to ask I'd be glad to answer. 103 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:04.000 Thank you. 104 00:16:15.680 --> 00:16:19.320 Other 15 year old, he's making new friends at this time and so forth, 105 00:16:19.640 --> 00:16:24.680 and I like to be very much in touch with him, knowing just what's going on and sort of guiding that boy. 106 00:16:25.820 --> 00:16:31.300 That's a very essential time for mother and dad to be close with him. 107 00:16:31.300 --> 00:16:34.380 But you know when I'm away this time, now...