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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 ....
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 ....