southeast, out to southwest and dillingham. you always know it is a little bit of a risk, certainly, he was not a bruder, he was a can do type of guy. just a march forward type of person. there was no obsession or premonitions. he just loved his state and nothing was going to stop him from grabbing a rod reel and going out and grabbing salmon. senatorceiveens was the longest serving republican senator in history. 40 years in congress. i know people called him uncle ted in alaska, but what did he really mean to the people there? he had a motto to hell with politics, just do what s right with alaska. that s really how he lived his life. he took on every challenge with alaska in mind and how he could make the state better and he started, obviously, in the eisenhower administration with the dream of statehood and then worked every day to make that dream a reality and fulfill the economic potential of the state try to fill the potential of