he served with robert hurd. i will never forget i had to be 10 years old working with my grandfather and the butcher store. i heard the most god-awful racket and i went back there and it was robert byrd and my grandfather discussing the bible , different parts of the bible and versions and what they meant and future meanings and my grandpa would stop and say i think you might want to meet this person. she is running for the united states senate and so that was many years ago as you can imagine but anyway the campaign changed her family because john kennedy in the west virginia battleground. we were catholic and knowing that was going to be a big part of this election, could he break that barrier? i never thought there was a barrier. in my hometown everybody worked in the coalmines and my father and grandfather had a grocery store and furniture store. everyone made the same amount of money and i never knew -- there were no classes that i knew of or that i could recall and i thought religion was a problem because