[ applause ] the second gentleman is here as well. thank him for being with us as well. and many of the same folks who fought so hard for this landmark legislation are with us today. i just got off the phone with one of them. a guy named tom hartkin. and yesterday two days ago i was on the phone with one who just had his 98th birthday, bob dole. but nobody worked harder than tony quello and steny hoyer and others weren t able to join us today but we are instrumental in bringing this to live. dear lindsey grahams like tom hartkin and bob dole. and bob is one of the pass on to regards as well as tom. tom is up in wisconsin working on he said a.d.a., doing something up there and i didn t explain exactly what. there is still more with us that are here in spirit like ted kend
it is remarkable. even the kinds of stunts they are pulling her. just are echoes of watergate. you had charles coleson, the counsel to the president richard nixon, they were plotting in the white house to send somebody up to new hampshire to sucker a guy in who was a state representative in maryland to go up and do a write-in campaign for ted kend ted kennedy. let me ask you about the overlap in what could sometimes seem small or taudry. segretti, they took the shoes of campaign staffers and nixon said this is shoe gate now. somebody couldn t get their shoes at a hotel. it looks like a prank. the small ngs the smallness of the drudge report and what you say, this isn t remove the