 And there you go. When LBJ stepped down, man, the vice president, remember, LBJ decided not to run. And Hubert Humphrey went in there and lost to Nixon. Maureen says, I ran into Biden in a Senate stairwell on his way to make a speech, dropping out. And he was alone, studying his script. And we looked at each other in silence, struck by the weight of the moment, and then went our separate ways to the same news conference. Biden was a boy in soul who had been told he should be president since he was elected to the Senate at 29.