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Director witmore it was hard to escape shakespeare, because politicians, whether they know it or not, are using and often saying shakespeares words. It is something that allows politicians to connect with audiences, and when they quote shakespeare, it gives the politician a certain kind of weight and heft. Brian lamb you said that robert byrd was probably the greatest senator to use the words of William Shakespeare in the senate. Director witmore yes, robert byrd was the cicero senator, and he used ornate clauses and that is one of the distinctive things about him that worked on the floor. Brian lamb we have a clip of him on the senate floor talking about him using shakespeare. [video clip] senator byrd oh that my tongue were in the thunders mouth, then with a passion would i shake the world, one drop of blood, drawn from by countrys thy countrys bosom. Aye, it is written having such a jewel, and these covering heavens fall like dew to inlay heaven with stars. As these, covering heaven
Reasons i voted for the training and equiping measures that have been implemented but my frustration is that as you also have observed there is a huge gap between the goals and missions that weve outlined for the United States and the actual action that were undertaking the train and equip activities are way behind what we might have hoped by this point and theres no clear timetable for really achieving the level of capability that we expected or hoped. I hope this has been a very sobering morning. I thank you all for being here. Thank you. Senator mccain i also want to thank the witnesses. Its been, i think, helpful to all members and this is not an issue thats going oy way, so im sure that well be seeing you again. Thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] mexico motivated next, the vice chair on global threats. M behringe
Brian lamb michael whitmore, we are out of time. We thank you come as director of the soldier Shakespeare Library for joining us, and we will continue this discussion. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q anda. Org. Q a is also available as a cspan podcast. If you enjoyed this weeks q a interview with michael whitmore, director of the soldier Shakespeare Library, here are some of the programs you might like. Marc pachter. Pulitzer prizewinning author edmund morris, talking about his career and how he liked. Janetta cole, the director of the smithsonian museumss african art. Monday night on the communicators, acting executive director of first net tj kennedy on the creation of one nationwide broadband Emergency Communications network for first responders
Emphasis on at all. Is that fair . Director witmore well, i think that politicians are using shakespeares words, whether they know it or not. He invented a lot of words. For example, he invented the word bedroom. So they are going to use a lot of words on the senate floor. I think that shakespeare is kind of in the bloodstream of our culture, and we often get him wrong, but we are close enough that people can hear that connection. Brian lamb we found this fun video on youtube. We dont who the man is, maybe you know the voice . But he does exactly what you talk about, putting quotes together that people dont know are shakespeare. [video clip] if you cannot understand my argument, and declare, it is greek to me, you are quoting shakespeare. If you are saying, it it is more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting shakespeare. If you quote salad days, you are quoting shakespeare. If you act more in sullen than in anger, if you Say Something vanished into thin air, you are quoting shak