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i m sorry i do not know the woman s name there, but i just caught yours because i was listening to other people s opinion. i agree with a lot of what is being said. thank you. let me emphasize one aspect of what you are saying. leadership. you mentioned fdr. we are lacking leaders now, people who are able to unite the country around common principles. if it is not so much that necessarily life was better in the better 50 course 60 years ago, but there was a sense of common national purpose, a sense that once we got to the nation s edge or water s edge, that we were all americans. sadly, it is much more difficult to achieve that kind of census today. if anything comes of this election, if we are able to is in some way revisit and redouble our commitment to be americans and trying to have some goals that are common to democrats, republicans, and independence, we will be advantaged. looking at your decades of experience and i m decades of experience in politics, wh ....
and never tried to anthony and brought him across the border to safety. and he wrote a terrific piece about their trip to sierra, the reporting part of it, which anthony was incredibly excited about. for those of you who knew anthony, he was just europe and his joy of being out covering with his own eyes and ears the most important story. friends have described his pure joy when he got to finally got to the square and he had told the editors and his colleagues that the reporting trip to syria was one of the best he made. what made anthony special was his fluency in ara bilk, his eye for arabic and his eye for detail. ivensted of telling the stories of war through the eyes of political leaders and those waging the battle. bill keller, my predecessor as executive editor who hired anthony at the times said something quite true, if wikipedia had an entry for foreign correspondent, it would do say anthony s name. he won prizes, including two pull it zers for his ....
bill frist and i had extremely difficult times, not personally because there isn t a nicer person in the world than bill frist. i remember a lot of dr. frist. i say dr. frist because he did everything he could to make the senat run as smoothly as we could. and as we all know, it s sometimes not very smoothly. whenever a problem that came up that related to medicine, he had a glimmer in his eye from a mile away. he loved medicine. bill, thank you very much for your friendship and all you ve done for tennessee and our country. [applause] enjoyed senator biden s remarks. he of course was always a senat guy and we all understand that. mitch mcconnell. i know that people talk about mitch mcconnell and harry reid. they re always fighting with each other. but mitch and i have a very warm relationship. we are friends. we do things for each other as much as we can and as more often than people think. i ve had so many people come to me and say, you know, the senat is dysfunctiona ....