[band music playing] freedom [applause] joe duffey has come out of nowhere. We are in good shape. It will be a whole new game. Later against enormous odds, he will win a place in the primary, win the primary, and then lose in the general election. I think there will be a reaction. He is one of my oldest and closest friends. We have worked together on a lot of things. After the 1968 Democratic Convention in chicago, we talked about trying to turn politics back to the people. Whether it was possible any longer, whether the established parties would ever get around to ending the vietnam war and then we talked about the redistribution of wealth in the would we right now, ever have the sense that the government really represents us . This is what joe and i were talking about in 1968 and 1969 and joe talked to other people, too. Like the people who had worked with him in the Mccarthy Campaign, those that were still disturbed about the war. I suppose it was against this background that he dec