European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes february 1978 Washington the limousines of the family and of the the were parked on the empty Plaza in front of the the Early crowd that had came to Honor Hubert Humphrey was kept standing in the slush at the Edge of the puddles of cold Gray water darkened Peoples shoes and the wait became Over an yet when those in the crowd spoke to each other 11 was with a Why did you decide to come i said to a Man next to he touched everybody he How did he touch yours i he threw his arms Over his Sec How t look he see How in dressed he wore a Black overcoat with a fur Black leather gloves were on his he kicked out foot to show a polished Black that what t mean when i say he touched everybody a Man and woman with him my son went to Law the woman you think he got there without any help the Man in the Black coat the Man had a pleasant he said he was de Hamilton and he was a school teacher in Falls Hubert hum civil rights Bill of that All you have to Hamilton National de sense education remember he helped push it and that How i got to col Charl Eshagh took the lest and went to Marshall my father was a Coal he was trapped in the mine or a week in crawled on his hands and Knees through the there was no Way 1 was going to no to College with out Hubert not about the woman with him the first vote 1 Ever put in for president was for Hubert Hamilton i went in the morning to sharpies High school and voted Tor him for thai was he said hat it was a Long Lime that but of course it was that a year the country elected Richard and it was Richard who stood on the Back a train going through Ohio and kept talking to White farm audiences about rape and muggers in the night by the end of the he had a strangers hand reaching out of every Cornfield in elected turned Down Hubert who stood in the cold and darkness on a Harlem Street Comer and i dont like these Leaf raking but if i have to make a Choice Between Leaf raking jobs and no jobs at then in for the sounds of that year rioted in your ears As you stood on line to see Hubert Humphreys and the first Light of the Day falling on the Walkway of the second floor of a Motel in and the darkness dissolved to reveal the splotch of Black ened blood of Martin Luther King who had been shot As he stood on this spot the night and from a Motel room on that morn ing came the controlled voice of one of Kings Andrew he Sal on a bed and described the murder of a Leader we have not then there was a tray falling onto the Cement floor of the ballroom Kitchen of the ambassador hotel in los of course it was a one of those big round Metal things the busboys use to carry to to m glasses the tray fell and Pell six and now there was screaming and people racing through the double doors 01 the and on the one Eye the other Robert Kennedy began to class breaking and More feet pounding and shrieks into the it All came Down to a Choice Between the Abie the War and the Chica go police department under Richard protesters or the Hubert Humphrey was he was the Man who was to run against Richard it became More important to decide Between protesters and when there was time for it was Only to deride he was not Good in the Hubert Humphrey of he laughed through the tear Gas in his room White the police heat up protesters in the but in the Middle of with the television and newspapers concentrating on the there was a voice that tried to Tell everybody but nobody dont destroy the Good trying to achieve the Humphrey and nobody listened to he needed help and Hia own the and on the morning after the election in Here Wax Richard late of the Law firm of Alexander standing on the stage of the grand ballroom of the Waldo Fastoria and holding a crewel work done by his that said something the limousines in the Paza and the police lifted the ropes ant i the i Crown walked to the the hands of iwo children in Down jackets was me Bra a wow to me on line George Tsok off a Cap and held it his heart As he started up the main he you know much about him i know Greene Uke you go four blocks from Tere is worse than the old Young people dont go to nobody got a the Man Here is the Only while Man who walked about it on the heart he s the Only White Man ill Ever Wail on line in the Pale Light o the great Tain the casket Sal with a couple of Floral stands in people tiled around it Nixon was supposed to be somebody Nixon the last Lime i saw Hubert in the he sat lit his office and talked about How he hated to be driving alone and Stop for a red that s when it always hits he i say to you lost to you let that Aber that become look what you did to the i Lell it makes me want to run right by red Humphrey so of on Hubert hum about to slide with his passions into an other called Nixon to wish him a Happy the line tiled out of the Rotunda and Down a flight of de who ran with Humphrey in was standing near the this shows you he Muskie Point ing to the people coming 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