the program you put in place. i also want to thank he s not here but my good friend gordon smith. ordon is and he and i served in the united states senate. we have been close friends. when he went through what is probably the most frightening and horrible prospect any parent could face of losing his , he unlike a lot of us who have not the same loss but loss of a child, he had the courage to relive it every day by speaking out, because make no mistake, all of you know this, every time gordon smith stands up to talk about this issue it comes home immediately. it is not a distant memory. tractor-trailer that killed my wife is not a distant memory. every time you show up at a funeral, it is not a distant memory. and i want to publicly acknowledge his courage, the courage to take a terrible tragedy that happened to him and provide, provide help, provide help to other parents, other families so they may be spared the agony that his family endured. . i don t think it s an a
i m not going to read that the 25,000 word series. they told me i could, but i want to thank the team that helped me put this together. the first is david, the editor of slate. he forces each of us to do, to take a month out of the year to write about something other than our day-to-day journalism. forces us to think in different ways and more expansive way. that is a dream for any journalist to do once in a lifetime. he forces us to do it once a year which is a joy. my two editors, michael and will, or here. michael helped me start this project. will wrestled it to the ground and made it a lot clearer than when it arrived in his computer. they are both great listeners, great thinkers but they also happen to them trimming pacing in office and speaking from out on the road when i was out there for cbs, and slate which i think makes him, laws psychiatrist. and then finally the women in my life, my mother, the late nanc
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