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Pursuit, and live our lives with that heightened sense of purpose? >> i'm joined now by senator edward markey of massachusetts. senator, let me ask you about what it meant to you personally. you served with ted kennedy all those years. how did you feel walking into the replica of the united states senate, into his office, that replica replica? >> well, what john f. kennedy meant to the presidency of the united states, to an entire generation, that's what ted kennedy meant to the united states senate. he made impossible dreams come true because he was the greatest senator of all-time. he kept c...

Clifford chase of new jersey. >> how about alan simpson? nancy kassenbaum from kansas? >> what happened to the northeastern republican party? why did it disappear? >> well, the shift occurred down to the south, and my dad lost his leadership position to senator cochran from mississippi and then the next year senator simpson from wyoming was too moderate and lost his leadership position to, i think, senator -- >> trent lott. yeah. >> so the southerners were taking over the party. they just had a different view of where the republican party should be, and as a result, the northeasterners and oth...

From california, the governor from kentucky. i'm very happy to have found a political home. >> i know. i want to talk about what's changed in the party you grew up in. of course, your father is a great man, john chafee. governor as well. my sense of this is that the people we grew up with, whether it's bill scranton of pennsylvania, or hugh scott, all the guys i grew up with were moderate republicans. clifford chase of new jersey. >> how about alan simpson? nancy kassenbaum from kansas? >> what happened to the northeastern republican party? why did it disappear? >> well, the shift occurred dow...

There's a big mural soft john brown and the border war with missouri, which pre-figured the civil war. that's what kansas was. it was not the kind of place that would ever, you know, give any sort of credence to a doctrine like this. >> and we think of kansas, in modern times, dwight eisenhower, nancy kassenbaum, very moderate republican -- >> they couldn't get elected to anything there now. not even bob dole. >> so what happened? >> what's the matter with this place? >> come on now, that's a long story. you're seeing a microcosm of it right here. it's the culture wars. we can talk about this ...

Is it that this is a city that's that afraid of abortion or of the anti-abortion movement that it can't have abortion services? >> i don't think the climate in wichita has virtually anything to do with the provision of abortion services. it was our experience and trials of dr. tiller that studies we did indicated that it was the abortion protesters who had the highest negatives, not dr. tiller. this is a city, this is a state that produced dwight eisenhower, nancy kassenbaum, a wide range of moderate politicians. what has happened is simply that the risks for the physician have become so great...