prof. greene: that's right, follow the instructions and -- henry, it wouldn't be the same without you. thank you so much for everything you have done for the kansas city public library. [applause] >> is there anything stevenson could have done different that would have made any difference in this election? prof. greene: no. that is the problem writing about a rout. you have to go through and there is no dramatic moment or you can say, if you had done this you would have gained 15 points. it was impossible. the job of the historian, if you believed it was an important election, is to show how it was important for the future. stevenson could have done nothing. i do want to say this, people think that the nixon moment, the checkers speech could have saved it for stevenson. so many nixon biographer's treated as this moment where if nixon had dropped off the ticket and done the honorable thing, stevenson would've become president -- that is absolute nonsense. richard nixon was not that important in 195

prof. ellis: it's a great idea. we have this problem and we have to get rid of it. we are blaming him for everything else under god's green earth, we might as well throw that went right on the funeral pyre. so, blame it on him. they deleted. because the way he structures it, first of all, i do not want any mention of slavery in this document, the same way they do not want any mention of it in the constitution, but, secondly, the way you phrase that is awkward because he refers to the fact that the governor of virginia, the kings are presented, has offered emancipation to all of the slaves in virginia who come to him at this moment. weird.hat is kind of butlames it on george iii then he says this and it confuses it. because it basically says that the british are the ones willing to in slavery and we are not. what he is really trying to say is their motives were doing it are not good. draft.shes the we did not pass without. billups. on the back of this -- passes around. on the back of this, i cannot move too far. pass these around if you would. there is a portrait. we have an artist coming in this afternoon who is the leadi