Our moderators, jim broudy and margery eagan. At evening and welcome to our audience here at wgbh and those watching at home for the first debate in the senate race being closely watched, not just here but all across the country. With the incumbent serving about the house of the senate the challenges for seven years under his belt and the house [inaudible] they will weigh their differences and their worldviews and ask for the rules there are no rules. The opening statements, no closings, no time limits although we will be keeping track of speaking time to keep things relatively even and we want to cover a lot of ground so brevity is appreciated. The free to talk to each other as well. In fact, we encourage it, gentlemen paid since we asked our studio audience not to applaud during the debate we want to take a moment to give senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy a hand. [applause] gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Marjorie, it is all yours. Some of markeys sup
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Station. He got a job here at age 12. Here we have a vignette that shows edisons mother yelling at his teacher mr. Crawford for calling edison addled. I guess today we might say stupid, confused, mixed up. You can see here, it hurt his feelings, it angered her, and she said to mr. Crawford, look, he is a lot smarter than you are, mr. Crawford. If you cant teach him, i will. She took him home and homeschooled him. He always credited his mother for making him the vanity became, through her kindness and teaching, and a love of learning. He read and Read Everything that he could. Even in the evenings as a man, he would read the encyclopaedia britannica. If edison were in school today, he might have been on ritalin or other medicine for add or adhd. Hes had so much going on in his head that if you are particularly interested in the subject matter at hand, he did not want to pay attention. He would want to explore things in his own way. We are on a restored train from 1889, representing the
Centinary. We felt it had to be in the Kennedy Center this living memorial to president kennedy. But there are reasons why i absolutely wanted to be here this evening and just let me quickly share with you first it a few of them. First, it is our tremendous sense of gratitude to and respect for senator edward kennedy. He was, of course, as we know, the lion of the senate but he was a lion in terms of u. S. Irish relationships, i think we all know that. He was there always to understand and explain and advocate the irish interests and to work for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. I was very proud to be there in march of last year at the opening of the institute. It was such a moving moment and i loved seeing the recreation of the study. It has an irish flag and signpost and many other signs of his affection for ireland. The second reason is that we are tremendous supporters of and believers in the mission of the institute. In addition to the emphasis on the senate there is t