We take you live to a conversation with senator cory booker. Celebrate the illustrious career of our beloved colleague, distant wrist university professor, james a server. Jim is retiring this year after 47 illustrious years studying american democracy, contribute into it, and enlightening others about it. During that time, jim has done many things. Im sure hell be angry with me, the am going to embarrass him a little bit. [indiscernible] longtime advisor to both congress and the executive branch, a documentarian, acting dean, director of many things, including this center, which he founded. A sponsor of more than three to 50 events of converses, principal invested conferences, principal investigator, an author and editor of over 50 books and monographs, peerreviewed journal articles, and well over 100 book chapters and publications. As my colleague said earlier this week, jim is american university. When we started talking about these dialogues, we asked jim who he would like to inter
To work across the aisle on severalse pieces of legislation. This afternoon this morning wer got to hear the farewell peach of my friend, lamar alexander. Hes a fantastic speaker and legislator. Its been an honor or to serve with him and to learn from him. Now you get to hear from the accountant. [laughter] i rise today to give my Farewell Speech on the floor of the u. S. Senate. Its been an honor of a lifetime to serve the great people of wyoming in this position for f e last 24 years. Ive really enjoyed being a senator. Not for the title, not for the recognition and, certainly, not for the publicity. I love solving problems for folks in wyoming and america. I like working on legislation. It might shock those who know me, but i never intended to get into politics. Awhile i always had great respt for those who serve in public office, it wasnt my calling when i left college. But over 50 years ago, i joined the young mens leadership training group, at a state convention in cody i spoke a
Thank you, mr. President. I come to the floor today to pay tribute to this great wyoming leader. For nearly a quarter of a century, mike enzi has represented the people of wyoming in washington, and hes done it with intelligence, with intensity e and with integrity. The cowboy state and the capitol are going to sorely miss mike if enzi. Hes truly cemented his legacy as the trusted trail boss of the wyoming congressional delegation, and its been an incredible honor and a great privilege for my wife bobbi and me to serve the people of wyoming alongside mike and husband wife diana who is with us today. I mike is truly a devoted family man as well as a man of great and deep faith. In fact, mike taught sunday school over the decades, many in the Faith Community know that mikes first sunday schoolteacher was my wife bobbis mother, jerry brown. Jerry and husband wife both passed away this year, and they had been married 70 years. He taught sunday school in wyoming, and her star pupil was mike
My friend chuck for their remarks. I will have more to say to them later. On march 9th, 1967, senator howard baker junior, the newly elected senator from tennessee made his maiden address, his first speech on the floor of the senate. He spoke for too long. The republican leader of the senate who was also bakers father in law, walked to congratulate him and said howard, occasionally you might enjoy the luxury of unexpressed thought. Which is good advice for farewell address as well. Senator bakers legislative assistant, i was also a speechwriter that made an address, or at least i thought i was. He developed a bad habit of not saying what i wrote for his speech. I asked to see him, do i have a problem with our relationship . Write what you want to write and say what i want to say. I learned a couple other things about saying what i want to say. One came from alex haley, the author of roots, you heard him speak once and said may i make a suggestion . If when you begin a speech you would
I love solving problems for folks in wyoming and america. I like working on legislation. It might shock those who know me, but i never intended to get into politics. While i always had Great Respect for those who serve in public office, it wasnt my calling when i left college. But over 50 years ago i joined the young mens leadership Training Group known as the j jaycees. At a convention in cody i spoke with the value of leadership in communities. And al simpson would go on to serve years in the state senate. After i gave my pitch, senator simpson did his usual fascinating and humorous speech and then took me aside and said, i dont even know what party youre in, but its time your put your money where your mouth is on this leadership stuff and get into politics. At the time gillet needs a mayor. My wife diana and i had moved to gillette a few years earlier. The town was facing a crisis as the discovery of oil, gas and coal turned it into a boomtown. The population start today skyrocket a