join you tomorrow at 8:00. rachel, imagine it is the mid 1990s, and you are with your elementary school on a tour of washington, d.c. and at the capitol. you are 30 is, 33 is rounding to the near 30 is? you are at an elementary school in the 1990s, and you are walking through one of the congressional office buildings. you see over there, a low traffic area, on a stun bench, there is the famous colonists and pundit mark shields, and he is sitting beside a guy in a t-shirt and jeans, who is actually me, and i am counting $10,000 in cash. what do you think, and who do you reported to? i think while they have drug dealers in the east coast here to, mom. that s probably why i think. it was it was a strange moment. it s all going to be explained at the end of the show why mark shields was with me when i was counting $10,000 in cash and congressional office building. can i ask you in advance how big $10,000 in cash is? it was hundreds, so i have never seen it before.
admiration for mike mansfield begins with mike mansfield forging a birthday to get to join the navy when he was 14, then joining the army after that, then joining the marine corps after that. he goes on to become a professor of asian history at the university of montana, gets elected, it serves 34 years in the congress of the united states, majority leader longer than anybody in history. united states ambassador to japan, under both president carter, asked again under president reagan, and, when he dies, when he dies, written on his tombstone, at arlington, at his request, is michael joseph mansfield, born march 16th, 1903, died october 5th, 2001, private united states marine corps. no majority leader, no ambassador of japan. what do you see in his