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I've climbed that damn ladder of politics and every step has been rough.

I've slipped so many times and almost falling back. While running for president in a nail-biter, a

candidate was writing in his diary and he shared it some years later. That top-rg is never going to be mine. My fingernails are

scraping it, but I don't have a grip. And yet, maybe I can make it.

That diary belonged to Hubert Humphrey, the Vice President of the United States in the middle of a political

firestorm during his 1968 run for the presidency. It's so damn close. I am tired. Oh, The race was neck and neck and as everyone who flicked on their TV set and tuned in back then could tell it wasn't an easy task.

The Democratic Convention that summer, it was a disaster.

Chicago erupted in chaos. protesters clashing with cops on live TV.

Nightsticks hitting heads.

The party divided over Vietnam inside the convention center.

Humphrey caught in the middle trying to make a speech.

I am keenly aware.

While he was damaged goods.

Of the fears and the frustrations of the world in which we live.

For many people, after Chicago, it was over.

And indeed, the moment he got out there, he was met with protests, hecklers anywhere,

couldn't even speak without someone trying to drown him out.

McGovern, standing in for the slain Robert Kennedy.

This is George McGovern, the senator from South Dakota who got more, most of Robert F. Kennedy's delegates after his death.

He backs Humphrey, but not the other opponent in the race Eugene McCarthy.

He had the bulk of the anti-Vietnam War supporters in the Democratic

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