he came to the state to campaign for ravenel.enel, as i say, was bright, attractive, an up-by-the-bootstraps man from a hard working charleston family had won scholarships to harvard, was a wonderful athlete, smart all of those things, and on paper he should have been able to retire a man who was nearly 78 years old but it didn't work that way. c-span: there are a lot of things we can talk about. one that i want to jump back to: the only senator in history to ever win by write-in. >> guest: i believe that's correct -- 1954 -- and would you like me to talk a little bit about that? c-span: what party was he in? >> guest: he was a democrat then. c-span: how was he written in? >> guest: literally, with a space on the ballot for writing in the name of somebody and even a ruling by the attorney general right before the attorney general of south carolina, right before the election, that if he didn't spell it exactly right, what was to determine the validity of the ballot was the voter's intent. so if you had s-t-r-e on or something like