The speaker this evening is the Honorable Harold E. H. of Des Moines, Iowa, the Governor of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, Dr., members of the clergy, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I was going to suggest that you all rise and stretch your legs. I'm sure you're all tired. Now that that's over with and you didn't have an opportunity to get away, I'll do the best I can without being rather lengthy in any discussion I might have here tonight, but at the same time to fulfill the obligation I came here to fulfill. You know, it's always interesting to stand and talk in an AA meeting, primarily because I never am sure precisely what I intend to talk about until after I've already said it and then it's too damn late to do anything about it. In my business, you know, that is particularly dangerous than any other kind of a meeting than this. But it gets to be a habit, and as a result, sometimes in press conferences, you know, I have to resort to the old adage, well, he who shooteth from the thigh sometimes receives a blue's hip, and that's all there is to it. But it is a pleasure for my wife and I and my family to join you here in Chicago for this intergroup meeting. You know, I sometimes think after listening to the good doctor that there must have been a great difference in those of us in the AA program. We certainly came from all walks of life and from all races, creeds and colors and denominations and whatever and what have you, and it bites across everything. This is particularly good. I was born in a small town in western Iowa. You know, my parents at that time lived on a farm which was known as the Sand Hill in the northeast part of the county because it wouldn't grow anything. My mother went to the hospital down at Ida. The day I was born, my father headed down there in a Model T Ford, and he drove through a water puddle, and the Ford flooded and drowned out. He got out to crank it and broke his arm. When he got back to the farm that evening, the whole damn place had burned down. Now this is an awful way to enter the world, you know, with your family…