him about losing the race to cli clinton, an he said, well, i figured he could shake twice as many hands as i could, so that s why i lost, because we all know he walked around with a black pen in his hand so people wouldn t be confused about which hand they could shake. and he did hide, as you were saying, a lot of the physical infirmities he talked to me about later on that he was having during the campaign. that was part of the he couldn t really shake hands with he did this all the time. we shook hands with our left. he took that as a sign of respect if it became natural to you, because he did not want it to be unnach ram. e v he did not want people to feel uncomfortable around him. he could not move his right hand. if you did that, he took it as a gesture of respect. i remember that after the campaign because it was so common place, you shook hands with your left hand. i would smile and extend my left hand to someone else i was not