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How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, During the course of the last few years, I've had many distinguished and illustrious guests on this program. But I can truthfully tell you that I've never had two guests of whom I'm more proud. And the two that I now have with me today.

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I speak of my mother from Miami and my father, Judge Mathis. I'm delighted to have both of you on this program and give the people of Florida an opportunity to see from where I came. I presume this is the first time. In fact, I know it's the first time you've been on television tonight, Judge, If you've been on television before, never before.

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Well, I'm delighted to have you on. What brings you? I've been in Washington now for some 13 years, and this is the first time you've been agreeable to come up here and see me. What's the occasion for it? Well, there's several reasons. What would you mind telling us what they are?

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Well, we want to see how you're getting along so many years up here. And secondly, we're on our way up to Atlantic City's. These are more friends where I used to live, and my wife wants to see the United Nations, and we're going to come back here and join the crowd little later on to go over to Russia.

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I understand that you stopped by way of North Carolina. What was the reason for your doing that? Well, I was chief page down and ledger Nature from North Carolina in 18 97 and I didn't know it was an important year in history then. But they made history that year, and it was the end of one era and the beginning of another era for the South.

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And I've never been back in the in that senate. It was in session. So on my way up here to see you so on so forth, I decided that we stopped and see the old capital set up in the gallery and just get back over the years.

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I bet you have to be 63 years. That's right. Now, did you have a chance to talk to the members of the Senate? Yeah, Well, first, the governor was kind enough to invite us out to take lunch for them in the then he mentioned, and he had some friends there and he showed us pictures all over the walls and the high walls and the high season and that all that atmosphere, you know, history enjoy that very much.

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And then, just as we're going out to dinner last night, the television man raised in there and without giving me a chance to think about it, he writes me with the first thing. And then I found myself in the lights. Mhm. And he had me to tell why this was Legislature was so different in the Legislature that I was chief pills in in 97.

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So in a few words, I had told him that that the Legislature of 97 was the end of the tragic and infamous, uh, copied bag hero. That year, they got ready of the Republican governor and a lot of other things that went with the with the carpet Bagheera.

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And that was the beginning of the southern people getting control of their legislature again. So what happened there that matter. They got through a clause to the constitution, which began to give the southern people a chance to regain their freedom and their democracy. And today I find that the down marker is he had just gone 24 to democracy.

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Just It was the time the Civil War ended down down to this time long before that. 16 1997. Why, that was all Republicanism, but a few Democrats. Yeah. And now just let me just interrupt. Just understand you going to Moscow now, tell us briefly, Uh, what's the purpose of going there?

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Well, I'm just going along to see what I can see and hear what I can hear and learn where I can look. Would you mind telling these people how old you are? I am 78. And you think that you're going to learn something new in Moscow.

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I learn something every day, and I'm sure I learn more over there. One last question. You know, I'm having some problem raising my two Children, and some people say that you're doing if you did a better job than I did. What kind of advice would you give me?

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Mhm. Just treat your Children like I did, given plenty of discipline. Talk to them about making character and Mels rather than making money. All right. Thanks for the dress. Thank you very much. I really appreciate you mother and your dad being on this program. Thank you very much, Ladies and gentlemen, for looking.

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And I hope you're looking again at the same time next week.