he stopped talking to me and i, and bob bartlett voted for cloture the next morning. and a month later, there was an announcement at this new auditorium in anchorage. >> what was his relationship like with humphrey? after humphrey? because i know you were very close to humphrey. >> you know, hubert and i, i loved hubert. and i was thrilled when he became vice president. i would say in retrospect, he would be better off if he hadn't been vice president. he had a great career in the senate. everybody loved him. this was really tough. he wrote a memo to then president johnson as the new vice president, warning limb about the war in vietnam. as one of the most prescient, carefully reasoned, possible documents for the possible to read. and the president took it as an insult and froze humphrey out of any meaningful involvement in the johnson administration for the better part of a half a year. it was very painful. and humphrey felt it deeply and i'm afraid humphrey wandered around and tried to do even better at supporting the war. to try get back into the president's graces

. >> i explained my situation, and i said, you know, there is a senator up there in alaska, bob bartlett, who never votes for cloture, but he could. it wouldn't hurt him on this one. but he doesn't want to, but he also wants an auditorium in anchorage. and the phone clicked off. he stopped talking to me. and bob bartlett voted for cloture the next morning. [ laughter ] and a month later there was an announcement of this new auditorium in anchorage. >> what was his relationship like with humphrey after humphrey? because i know you were very close to humphrey. >> you know, hubert and i, i loved hubert. and i was thrilled when he became vice president. and i would say in retrospect he would have been better off if he hadn't been vice president. i think he had a great career in the senate. everybody loved him. this was really tough. he wrote a memo to then president johnson as the new vice president warning him about the war in vietnam. it's one of the most prescient, carefully reasoned possible documents for the president to read. and the president took it as an insult and froze humphrey ou