because william o. douglas is a guy who is respected. he has to give back -- get back in good graces. he has to cement that tie to the new deal and william o. douglas supposedly says i will not read the number two man to a number two man. and andy turns them down. he takes alvin barkley, harry truman takes album berkeley democratic leader of the senate and you have the ticket. berkeley is a pretty good speaker. he is pretty well-liked. he is older than harry chairman and harry chairman is not a young man. they both come from border states. it doesn't look like much of the ticket. it doesn't look like much of the ticket but harry truman goes to the convention. he waits for hours to give his speech. he doesn't give it until 1:00 in the morning and the convention has been all world up with everything. hubert humphrey has gone to the floor and forced a floor fight on civil rights. the southern democrats were mad enough going into this convention and then hubert humphrey said our plank on civil rights is not as strong as the republicans. it's

, truman it's so bad, it's so bad at that convention he gets on the phone, and he's calling william o. douglas, the supreme court justice. will you be my vice president? why him? because william o. douglas is a guy who's respected by the old new dealers. he has to get back in good graces with that wing of the party. he's got to cement that tie to the new deal. and william o. douglas supposedly says, i will not be a number two man to a number two man. and turns him down. so he takes barkley, this democratic leader of the senate, and you've got a ticket which is -- barkley's a pretty good speaker. he's kind of well liked. he's older than harry truman, and harry truman is not a young man. they both come from border states. um, it doesn't look like much of a ticket. doesn't look like much of a ticket. but harry truman goes to the convention, he waits for hours to give his speech. he doesn't give it until, like, 1:00 in the morning. and the convention has just been all roiled up with everything. hubert humphrey had gone to the floor and forced a floor fight on the civil rights plank. the southern d