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 was known for its bigger. Its volume and vigor. A story that we both enjoyed telling. Since many of you were present the last time, i wont repeat it today pity though, its a good one. [laughter] we were on the floor. [laughter] we went to freshman senators one democrat and one republican, who got into a parliamentary dispute. I sighed taking place, so i went down and actually took the side of the f
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 included taft and baker simon gallstone, and robert f kennedy. The senate was a place where you instinctively pulled yourself up a little bit straighter, where he tried to act a little bit better. Being a senator changes a person, ted wrote in his memoirs. As vicki said, it may take a year or two years or three years, it always happens. It fills you with a heightened sense of purpose. That is the magic