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"You know, about a year ago, my private cook Mrs. Wright, who you know was driving from here down to the ranch in Texas. So I asked her if she would mind bringing my dog, Little Beagle Johnson, with her in order that he could be there when I got home. Mrs. Wright respectfully declined. She said it is hard enough for a black woman driving through the South without having a dog to worry about. Finding a place to eat, to sleep, to use the restroom. The personal cook of the vice president of the United States has to drive through towns without stopping , then squat to pee by the side of the road. Hundred years ago, she would've been a slave. Hundred years from now, hell, she might be... president. But today, we live in a time of too much uncertainty. Where can she eat? Where can she sleep? Can she vote? And if she does, will she be harassed for casting that vote? Can she attend school? If so, which school? Can she travel the cities and towns of this land without fearing for her safety? What rights that belong to the men in this room should not be afforded to her?"
"I have zero intention of running for President."
"Woody Harrelson - Lyndon B. Johnson"
"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Lady Bird Johnson"
"Michael Stahl-David - Robert F. Kennedy"
"Richard Jenkins - Senator Richard Russell"
"Bill Pullman - Senator Ralph Yarborough"
"Jeffrey Donovan - John F. Kennedy"
"Kim Allen - Jacqueline Kennedy"
"Brent Bailey - Ted Sorensen"
"John Burke - John Connally"
"John Ellison Conlee - George Reedy"
"Oliver Edwin - Bill Moyers"
"Darrel Guilbeau - Jack Valenti"
"Gary Grubbs - Senator Everett Dirksen"
"C. Thomas Howell - Walter Jenkins"
"Wallace Langham - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."
"Kate Butler - Juanita Roberts"
"Doug McKeon - Hubert Humphrey"
"Michael Mosley - Kenneth O'Donnell"
"Tim Ransom - Larry O'Brien"
"Rich Sommer - Pierre Salinger"
"Brian Stepanek - Rufus Youngblood"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.