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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (61066)	11/24/2001 12:57:55 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

While in high school, I worked at the drive-in theater where the Rev. Schuller got his start. He had already moved on by the time I got there, and the Crystal Cathedral was still but a gleam in his eye, so to speak.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (61066)	11/24/2001 1:00:54 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

You reminded me of one Schuller story about Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon that I thought touching and revealing. I found a copy of it: Reverend Schuller had told us how he had asked Hubert Humphrey for an extraordinary gift of kindness to his arch political enemy Richard Nixon. The two men, one a Democrat, the other a Republican, had been diametrically opposed on most social issues; and, of course, after a bitter campaign, Nixon had narrowly defeated Humphrey in the race for president. And Reverend Schuller knew he was asking a lot. At the time of Schuller's request, Nixon, disgraced and humiliated by Watergate and forced resignation from office under the threat of impeachment, had been living in isolation at San Clemente for about four years. Hubert Humphrey, who lived nearby, was dying of cancer. Reverend Schuller appealed to Humphrey and asked him to reach beyond the normal human bounds of kindness and help a human being in pain -- one for whom Humphrey had no reason to feel any pity. Any reasonable Democrat would have undoubtedly advised that Nixon had done more to damage to the presidency and American faith in the political process then any other politician in U.S. history and deserved all the consequences of his actions. But Reverend Schuller asked for the favor anyway. "I told Hubert," Reverend Schuller related, "that I had a friend who was living twenty-one miles away from him in exile like Napoleon." "Ahh," Humphrey responded, knowing exactly who the reverend was talking about. "Will he ever be able to expose his face in public again?" the Reverend asked. Humphrey listened. "The first time is going to be awful." Humphrey agreed. "That'll be a toughie." Feeling he had a sympathetic ear, Reverend Schuller plunged in with his request. "I've been thinking, Hubert, he can never go out again unless it is to a big, national historic event. It's got to be thrown by a Democrat, not by a Republican. Any Democrat that throws that kind of a party and invites Nixon had better not run for re-election." "I know what you are thinking," Humphrey said. And then he didn't say, "I'll do it." He said something more remarkable. He said, "Thank you." He understood that he had just been offered that extraordinary opportunity for an act of kindness few are called upon to deliver. And he rose to the occasion. Indeed, Humphrey made sure that Nixon was invited to a big event thrown by a Democrat. He called Nixon and told him that he was abut to die; he then invited him to sit next to his wife Muriel when his body would be in state in the rotunda in Washington. And that is how Hubert Humphrey, in death, performed a most extraordinary act of kindness, giving a humiliated man a chance to face the nation again. That was Nixon's first coming out, sitting next to Muriel Humphrey at her husband's memorial service. Source: lightworks.com