steve: in the general election there was one speech, september 30, salt lake city, was that a turning point for hubert humphrey? did that narrow the race between hubert, wallace, and nixon? robert: where he declares he is his own man. humphrey got support from the unions and they started to organize on his behalf in the general election. that did give him a bump. but then when he declared essentially that he was his own man on the vietnam war, that he was going to support a total stoppage of the bombing of vietnam and essentially breaking from lyndon johnson, that did help him. most historians would agree, and the polls suggested he began to close the gap. thes we discussed earlier, popular vote, the electoral college vote was a blowout. on it big, 300 votes. the popular was less than 1%, 43.5% for next and, 42% for humphrey. one of the reasons he could close that gap was due to that speech and the sense that he could bring back eugene mccarthy supporters, antiwar supporters. robert kennedy very fascinating, so we will never know of course. we will never know. in some ways it might have been theer for him to h