CSPAN University Of Virginia Law School Commencement Address June 2, 2014
It was about 90 degrees and the parade has started two hours too late. We finally got underway. For the next few hours, i walked by his side and person after person pushed back the sidewalk barriers and rushed up to him with tears in her eyes. Thank you, congressman. Congressman, thank you, you changed my life. For three miles it was a course of people as they bid farewell to a man who entered Public Office would such a parade was not possible. 32 years later, he was fighting back tears of his own, probably holding his soontobe husbands hand in the streets of the city that was beaming with lov...