Looked at roberts rule. I figured it out finally. The guy got more votes than i did. I got beat. Thats all there is to me. It didnt bother me but it hurt me because it hurt some of my friends. How are you feeling about leaving . Well, when i wanted a doughnut this morning, i went down and get it. Ive been a member of congress for 34 years and to finally get beat, if i was a manager for a be able or Football Team and i had 341, id be in the hall of fame, so doesnt bother me. And really it didnt bother me to get beat, because i wasnt just set on going. I had 18 cochairman who were chairman of my 18 counties in my district that were supporting me and wanted me to run, and i did. Its better judgment was it its hard toe get elected if you are 90 or 91yearold and they dont tell people that you run two miles every morning, that you vote 99 plus percent of the time. Theres a difference between that and old people. That wasnt brought up by the Dallas Morning News because theyre not in my favor.
Various native american tribes. 10 a. M. Eastern followingw. Following washington journal. Justices atcourt 8 30 p. M. Eastern this thanksgiving week on cspan. For a complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Michigan senator carl levin is retiring after serving six terms in the senate. He recently spoke about his political career in the current state of washington politics. This is a half hour. Senator carl levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee, why are you retiring . A number of reasons. I didnt want to spend these two critical years out campaigning, raising money. I just felt there was too much at stake now, and i have a responsibility for some of those things as chairman of the Armed Services committee. It is not the way i wanted to spend my time, basically. The wife and i have been married for 53 years, and now 42 of those years have been in public life. We felt it was time. I am also 80 years old now. I just felt it was time to go home, spend a little more time with th
Whats your secret, how are you running two miles a day . I was told once, i was in the cattle building, if one of your he was has a bull calf. Go out there and lift the bull calf every day over the fence, day after day after day until hes a fullgrown bull. Then when you can still lift him over the fence and throw him over the fence, you can throw the bull enough, you can run for congress. Thats what they told me. So thats how i got into the congress, i left the cattle business and came here. Well, youve switched parties during your time here. Youve seen the parties change so many times. Whats your handicap, lets start with the democrats what do you see when you look at the Democratic Party . Well, the Democrat Party was a twoparty party, democrats and liberal democrats. I wasnt really liked any better by the republicans than the democrats, because i voted in my district. I had the sam rayburn district. Go up there and do a job and tell them youre doing a good job. Im not a golfer. I do
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Hostess went under. [laughter] applause but when i went to see the bust for that first time, a bust that i have to admit captured georges mile wide grin and dramatically imperfect teeth, i saw on the pedestal so many things that i didnt know were there. I saw the names of my brothers and sister inside a heart, my dads favorite movie, quotes by him how much he considered being mayor, honor bestowed on him, and the things made possible for people who didnt have power, who didnt have voice, there was so much more on that pedestal than death. And, so, i think its time to reclaim George Moscone from the narcissistic legacy or the senselessness of dan white or the well intentioned world of hollywood or the better intentioned world of theater. Its time to reclaim him from the places where the real george gets lost in the story of others, even in my own. And we gift him back to the city and to the people, to his friends and to his colleagues and to the citizens who are the fabric and texture a