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Medical history from a collection at marylands National Museum of health and medicine. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums to reveal what americans know about american history. Lamar alexander from richard rings onto bill clinton. He recalled his walk across tennessee after part of his 1978 gubernatorial campaign. And he shared stories behind his mementos in his d. C. Office. My walk across tennessee was 1978. I began on january 26th at my parentss home in east tennessee. And then i walked east until march 1st. A big three foot snowstorm. It took me to july 6th. Its 1,000 miles. ...

Follow me along. We would set it up. They would get up and play music. A crowd would gather. I would make a speech. Sometimes i would play the trombone or washboard. And then we would go to the next place. It was sort of a throwback to a campaign from 50 or 60 years ago. So i walked across the state 1,000 miles. Spent the night every night with someone in their homes. I went home on weekends. Usually saturday and sunday night. Then i would go right back to the same place. People would give me walking sticks as a symbol of my walk across the state. The first day was january 26th, 1978. And it w...

It was a levi shirt that they made right there in that factory. I had to think about what am i going to wear . You dont walk across the state in a blue suit. I had this red and black plaid shirt in my closet. I went to the Friedman Army surplus and bought a dozen more. I wouldnt want to wear the same one every day. Then as i walked across the state i auctioned them off to raise money for the campaign. I knew i was doing better by the time i got to middle tennessee around nashville, one shirt went for 500. And i thought, i may have a chance to win this. I wanted to save the boots. I think one o...

Staff would say put your shirt on and go back out and walk with people. So even today we have an annual mule day parade, the first saturday of the year in columbia, tennessee. There might be 100,000 people there. I wear my red and black shirt and walk in the parade. The rule of thumb is walk in parades. If its the mule day parade, walk in the front. It affected everything about my political career. I dont think i would have been elected without it. Because it gave me a personality or a story that people paid attention to. It also came after i had lost a race. It was kind of like a pennance. It...

Trombone slide froze. So i just took off walking. I think my parents were probably pretty embarrassed. They raised me to be a respectable young man. I was standing on their porch announcing i was going to walk 1,000 miles across tennessee. I would rye to shake 1,000 hands a day. Usually we would plan ahead. Maybe i would stop and have lunch with certain people. By late afternoon, particularly as the weather got better, i would get to a town. And i would have a family to stay with. It might be the local farm bureau head or just were someone from the community. I might go to their kidss softball...