he said walter ruther comes in here to see hubert and says if you don't do something, we're going to burn the cities down. he said ruther, the head of the united auto workers who had a crippled hand because he had been shot during a demonstration, always kept his right hand in his pocket. and he said hubert keeps smiling while ruther is talking and he is trying to figure out how can i get walter ruther to take his hand out of his pocket so i can shake hand with him. he says ruther comes in here and tells me we're overdoing it if we don't find a way to rebuild the cities, we're going to burn them down. i'm sitting here. i'm smiling. i'm looking at that hand. i'm trying to get his hand out of his pocket so i can cut his balls off. he said that's the difference between hubert and me. >> i think we have to point out, though, that the relationship between the president and a vice president is an a inherently difficult relationship. here is someone who is waiting for you to exit the stage, someone who may have been your rival, someone who may have been equally distinguished in public life.

themselves ranked ford as the american leader most helpful to labor, above franklin roosevelt, above walter ruther. ford's roll as approvity of consumer culture explained part of this appeal. his pronouncement about the automobile, enjoyment of abundance caught popular imagination in an age ready to abandon restraints of former tradition. he believed the automobile did not just provide a faster and easier mode of communication, it enhanced the quality of life for common people. his words, i will build a motor car for the great multitude, he said of the model t, so low in price that no man making a good salary will be able to unknown one and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in god's great open spaces. the enjoyment and pleasure of the multitude. that was the key component, i think, of ford's consumer vision. this inspires, for example, the five-dollar day. the move that doubleled the existing wage for auto workers in one swoop. he did this not so much as we regard -- reward, but triggering further consumption. as he put it, i want to make sure the men who make the model t ca