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
Gathered in this little room off the Senate Chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. For the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him about health care while literally a dozen members of the u. S. Senate at one point or another poked their head in. And in those kinds of conversations you have with people that you really know, abbreviated little, did you look after yeah, i am on that and did you take, yeah, i got that. Back and forth, back and forth between him and his colleagues in the u. S. Senate. And when we left that day, i thought to myself, in a business where it is so much easier to stop something from happening than it is to actually find your way to get something done, this is how this guy succeeds. Relationships, trust followthrough. It was all on display that day as a sidebar to the meeting that we were having about health care. In short, senator kennedy absolutely was the bigfoot from massachusetts in so many ways if you needed somebody to help you get so
Think about truman for a minute. Truman was an oldfashioned democrat who belong to every known club in the home town in missouri. He was a back slapper. He despised harry truman. John Kenneth Galbraith despised harry truman. They wanted him off the ticket in 1948. Even though they had no idea what eisenhower represented, but he wasnt truman. Truman was normal and they didnt want that. Kennedys father hadnt been very pleasant in world war ii. Robert kennedy worked for joe mccarthy. So what was so appealing about this was he wasnt ordinary. He didnt come out of the middle class. He represented the something above elevating the american pace. The big changes the addition of the publicsector liberalism. As we know it is a force collapsed with the tromping of mcgovern as some and then Ronald Reagan electoral victories in the 1980s. But the liberalism reconstruct itself when labor reconstructs itself around the public sector. Thats why i say what happened in new york is an expression of this
Next on booktv, Tom Angelique and the American Revolution from assorted 18th Century Newspapers. Mr. Anderlecht contains newspapers from 1763 to 1783 examines reports ranging from the sugar of 18,642,000 concorde and bunker hill. Its an hour and 15. Its an honor to be speaking at the old state house. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the tv and cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary war, we realized we were on pace to producing 800 page from a twoinch thick volume and so we quickly cut corners and retrace our steps and decided to scale back and produce what is now a 400 page fullcolor book for you. Similarly, i prepare to fight our presentation for this evening and decided to scale back back to him are manageable 45 minutes. So ill start by saying that without these papers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapers are what fan the flames of rebellion, sustained loyalty to the cause, provide critical correspondence du