Why the smile, Richard Kimble? Cooper.

I think you are running from somebody...

Oh, please, come on, wake up.

Mr. Cooper... mr.

He's a raal oil butt, that fellow!

Gary Cooper handsome.

Mr. Mcnulty, do you know what i've been doing?

Every single city of the United States is on here.

Up spouted by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.

I wouldn't want to be the guy he's bucking it for. ( suspenseful theme playing ) Good luck, Mr. Cooper.

Hear that? Did you hear that?

Oh, now, just a minute.

You're right he's in conference with mcnulty.

Now, get out of here, will you?

And the poem began,

Oh, come on. Becky cooper was a nightmare of a high school girlfriend,

And there was this person, Muriel Cooper.

Mcnulty.

It so happens i quit my job.

It's an intensely, intensely physical process.

Like how you used to always say becky cooper.

Don't forget it, Karen.

Over there at the yacht club. Is, uh, Kimble, uh, Jeff Cooper in this race?

The race is almost over.

Who knows Muriel Cooper? Muriel Cooper?

Finally, think back to this famous scene from election night 2008 back in the United States, where CNN beamed a live hologram of hip hop artist will.i.am into their studio for an interview with Anderson Cooper.

After the race, he tossed his wet, cloud white hair and said, 'You're a god.'

It's the politics that's hard, indeed impossibly hard, because this reform would shrink K Street, and Capitol Hill, as Congressman Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee, put it, has become a farm league for K Street, a farm league for K Street.

I never heard anyone say this about Anderson Cooper and his crew, who were attacked covering the same story.

Well, avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Here in the early mission town of Santa Barbara, wearing the name Jeff Cooper, he has begun to put down roots.

There's another piece of the puzzle, which Ann Cooper talked about beautifully yesterday, and one you already know.

But the Media Lab is an interesting place, and it's important to me because as a student, I was a computer science undergrad, and I discovered design later on in my life.

She passed away in 1994, and I was hired back to MlT to try to fill her shoes, but it's so hard.

She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

They were nearly all whalemen chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness, and a democracy was saved. Yes, we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes, we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America. The heartache and the hope, the struggle and the progress. The times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed Yes, we can.