Bobert--

I love this country and its tradition of free speech.

I love people in the streets to oppose Jim Crow (my own first). I loved kids in the streets against the Vietnam war. I loved people in the streets for peace.

But, Bobert, I love them all. Not just the ones that agree with me, or the ones where every signmaker can spell. I love them all.

I hope you took the opportunities you had to speak. In the streets if you felt that call.

These people say they feel threatened by their government. I have felt that way myself. Sometimes I went into the streets and spoke, sometimes I didn't. If they feel that way, then no wonder they are speaking. I love them for it.

Grace in the face of political opposition is one of the things that defines the good part of American politics. It pleases me when I see and hear Americans who show that virtue. I try to show it toward my opponents.

My opponents are not usually villains or idiots, they are heroes for their own values. To call them nasty names does me no credit at all. It is especially abhorrent to me to suggest that a crowd of thousands must all be villains and idiots, because I have been told that some of them are.