His backfilling was sabotaged inadvertently that same day by his wife, who was campaigning in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont. The loudspeakers picked her up telling her husband on the phone that she wished he could be there to see “all these beautiful white people.” She later claimed that she was referring to the snow—although when she realized people could hear her, she had turned pale and added, “beautiful Black and white people.” There were no Black people present. Not in a white suburb like Rosemont. In Nashua,
