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>> first the mail. from tennessee. >> steven from new york. >> i had zero money when i graduated from boston university, steve. i had nothing. i had to write gag lines to pay the rent. i believe that was vice president's favorite show, "uncle ted." he's from strain ton. and mr. ireland. >> from new zealand. >> easy on the far left
>> right. >> and if this had been a republican convention and every reporter would have swarmed the platform and the republicans, and tick-tock, tick-tock, instead. abc most astonishing on this. david muer took caroline kennedy aside and she's not elected, and said do you think if uncle ted were here today, do you think-- it was a leading question. don't you think that ted kennedy is part of the convention after all? you know, i miss, i miss, it was embarrassing what they used the journalistic resources for. >> i want to maintain had the convention been switched around and this was at the begi...
>> right. >> and if this had been a republican convention and every reporter would have swarmed the platform and the republicans, and tick-tock, tick-tock, instead. abc most astonishing on this. david muer took caroline kennedy aside and she's not elected, and said do you think if uncle ted were here today, do you think-- it was a leading question. don't you think that ted kennedy is part of the convention after all? you know, i miss, i miss, it was embarrassing what they used the journalistic resources for. >> i want to maintain had the convention been switched around and this was at the begi...
Bill phillips, i think was his last name. i lost track of all the people that were on it. and the senator and i had had dinner with the nasa chief in new york about four years ago when he was still with nasa. >> russ, how do you manage the e moegs you've got to be feeling, the loss of a close friend for 40 years and the fact that your life could have been saved by the fact that you weren't on that plane? >> it didn't hit until about 10:30 last night. and i had one of those "oh, my god" moments. and my first duty was to get in touch with my daughter and tell her that i wasn't -- i didn't make t...
Traveling together, but also fishing together. he knew that i loved the outdoors so he took every opportunity to include me in things that he sought to -- that he knew i would enjoy. ted stevens never forgot where he came from and who sent him to washington. that's why he served the underserved in the state of alaska. many people in alaska feel like not only they in terms of distance a long way from washington, they are a long way from the minds of those of us in washington. ted made sure that was not the case. i think that's one of the reasons why people really did love him in alaska and i he...