why he posed like that ahn what he saw as his greatest accomplishment. when i walked into his office there were photographs of his family, martin luther king, president kennedy, bobby kennedy, his family. and it was so emotional. he had a chair sitting in front of the couch. i knew he wanted to sit there but he said where would you like me to sit? i said sit right there because i wanted those photographs behind him. that sense of history up there. senator, you were up there. i m told you knew that history was a lot nicer than the history you lived. those senators were once much friendlier with each other. absolutely. my predecessor was wonderful when i got here. he said i know you ll be great but i just wish you could know the senate i knew. he said, you know, i m a more liberal democrat than you are but some of my best friends were republicans because we did things together. you know? back then their kids lived here. they went to football games together. they suffered through ba