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Career. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in giving a warm boston welcome to senator john mccain. [applause] senator mccain thank you, ted. Mr. Vice president , all of ted friends and colleagues visible here today, it is a privilege to be here to help dedicate his institute. A fitting memorial for a man who gave a halfcentury of Dedication Service to our country in a place he truly loved, the United States that. I wish i hadnt already told my best anecdotal ted at his memorial service. It might have been appropriate here. It concerned an exchange that he and i had on the senate floor that w...

One made the senate, live like ted kennedy. It was one of the great pleasures of my life to hear ted kennedy deliver one of his stemwinders on the floor. Rarely was the more animated than when he went leading the Living Museum that were his offices. He could, and he would tell you everything that there was to know about all of it. [laughter] and then there were more somber moments. I still remember the first time i pulled open the drawer of my guess. Each senator is assigned a desk, and there is a tradition of carving the names of those who had used it before, and those names in my death inclu...

Gathered in this little room off the Senate Chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. For the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him about health care while literally a dozen members of the u. S. Senate at one point or another poked their head in. And in those kinds of conversations you have with people that you really know, abbreviated little, did you look after yeah, i am on that and did you take, yeah, i got that. Back and forth, back and forth between him and his colleagues in the u. S. Senate. And when we left that day, i thought to myself, in a business where it is so...

Think about truman for a minute. Truman was an oldfashioned democrat who belong to every known club in the home town in missouri. He was a back slapper. He despised harry truman. John Kenneth Galbraith despised harry truman. They wanted him off the ticket in 1948. Even though they had no idea what eisenhower represented, but he wasnt truman. Truman was normal and they didnt want that. Kennedys father hadnt been very pleasant in world war ii. Robert kennedy worked for joe mccarthy. So what was so appealing about this was he wasnt ordinary. He didnt come out of the middle class. He represented t...

Next on booktv, Tom Angelique and the American Revolution from assorted 18th Century Newspapers. Mr. Anderlecht contains newspapers from 1763 to 1783 examines reports ranging from the sugar of 18,642,000 concorde and bunker hill. Its an hour and 15. Its an honor to be speaking at the old state house. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the tv and cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary war, we realized we were on pace to producing 800 page from a twoinch thick volume and so we quickly cut corners and retrace our steps and decided to scale back...