 Difficult for us to grasp today a transcendent, almost a religious as well as a political idea. How could we now rejuvenate the meaning of the union? We had to do so by bringing both sides back together again. He wants to go back to life, but life has other plans for him. How did he get to be a politician? Whose idea was it that he should run for the governor? Governors in Maine at this point were one-year posts.