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Bigger than yourself. johns story is the american story. thats not hyperbole. the american story. grounded in respect and decency, basic fairness. the intolerance for the abuse of power. many of you have traveled the world, lack how the rest of the world, how they look at us. they look at us a little naive, were fair, decent. naive americans. but thats who we are, thats who john was. and he could not stand the abuse of power wherever he saw it. in whatever form, whatever country.

[laughing] one of johns major campaign people is now with the senate, with the governor of ohio, was on this morning, i happened to watch it. he said that biden and mccain had a strange relationship, always seemed to have each others back. whenever i was in trouble john was the first guy there. and i hope i was there for him. and we never hesitate to give each other advice. hed call me, what the hell did you say that for in the middle of the campaign? not an issue, you just screwed up, joe. id o...

And i can remember the day when i came out to see john, we reminisced about it, it was in 96 and we were about to adjourn for what we called the caucuses, a lunch on that we had lunch together, democratic and republican senators once a week. we went into the caucus. we were approached by our caucus leaders with the same thing, raised as discussion, joe, it doesnt look good you sitting next to john. swear to god. same thing was said to john in your caucus. thats when things began to change for th...

We received an award for civility in public life. it was the college of allegheny college, puts out this prestigious award for bipartisanship. john and i looked at each other, and said what the hell is going here. not a joke. i said to senator flake, thats how it is always supposed to be. youre getting an award? im serious, think about this, getting an award for your civility. getting an award for bipartisanship. and classic john, at allegheny college, hundreds of people there. john, the senate ...

We hold these truths self-evident, all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. to john those words had meaning as they have for every great patriot that has served this country. we both loved the senate, proudest years of my life were being a united states senator. i was honored to be vice president. but being a united states senator, and we both lamented watching it change. during long debates in the 80s and 90s, as some of the colleagues who were around...

We call regular order to start to treat one another again like we used to. the senate was never perfect, john, you know that, we were there a long time together. id watch teddy kennedy and james o. eastland to fight like crazy on civil rights and go down and have lunch together in the senate dining room. john wanted to see, quote, regular order writ large, get to know one another. you know, john and i were both amused, i think lindsey was at one of these events, john and i received two prestigio...