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through this it is tough to play when you go full swing. he times -- times it. this is not the first time but tonight was spectacular. another rookie made a start. he was very solid. he who of the his last two starts. the last he lost 2-1. and a no decision he could not come back after the delay. what did you see from him. he worked good with moeller. look at the sink on this. down in the zone and something that he is getting into a nice groove. that was the only bad one of the game. and that's the only run that he gave up all night long. he battled through the inning.
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and he came up with big pitches. a strikeout. he did it very good job tonight the rain came. i call that a successful outing. >> there are the numbers for tillman. we'll have inside the clubhouse now for comments from the danger.   >> that's the difference  game jones was tremendous. the ball found him from the first inning. he played a all star center field. that's outstanding. >> i through he had one good split. other than that. you know he just didn't have
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the life and the finish on his slider. fastball was okay. there is shore to be benefit to get a zero put up. he had to work hard. our put aways were not up to par. were you surprised. >> yes. >> i would like him to throw the pitch that he has the most conviction with and confident that he can get it out of him that's what hegos with. >> >> have you seen anything like that? >> i don't believe so. >> i think those questions are better referred to other
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people. i think that everybody did the very best they could. put that's -- that has nothing to do with me managing the game or playing the game. >> you feel like you came at a lot time? >> i knew the rain was coming. so we did what we had to do to score the run there. izturis and how you are going to have that keufrpbd of -- kind of at bad and the conditions. he came up with the clutch. the highs contributed more for us all around what he does in the field and professionalism. he has been a top shelf guy for us. but then the delay came and you have to live with it.
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 five stronginnings. he allowed one run, could mom come back after following and he isit fitching very cell is learning. and two homeruns one he get jim johnson tonight it was a 3 run homerun off rose. that's the difference in the game. >> the officials would be winning a smoke streak game. this is what happened on the
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pitch. 2 outs in the top of the 9th. right here hold of a fastball. just into the first row. this gives the indian as lead. they go on to win. breaking ball. they are down 4-2. a couple of big hits. >> you are looking at a hitter like that and he hit two pitches that were in his and you have to get the other side credit. he did not first and they have given his team a win. 10-0 over the white sox. and paple upon got the save. tampa bay. it over minnesota. angel as trailing at only land.
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if they lose it. it is three games out in the case. in settle they're in the get a uptate on that standings. and still alive. two and a half back and they're back a team in their division. aide it was cleveland over the. hey i'm worried about mrs. lowenberg next door.
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dave. and again it stops for a while. it is hard to keep going but i'm not going to say is the train's. heir. >> as far as the fact there were khais in the movie when we saw adam zones. aide it tomb os to hurt you most consistently. >> i mean that there are there are today how rough on them. you hop in the game. forget about the it bad. following in the 5-3. loss. and the ceremony joins the
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elite and and 1980. nine days later in this homerun he threw out the first pitch. he should thank me. ed my career. and one of the best clutch hitters a great job. >> here is my favorite. 40 all time. he knows 49th. seven more. a quick look at the throwing a right hander against the left- hander. >> you would see justin masterson. he has been traded to the indians, and on board for the os he is looking to take it
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stop losing. start gaining. speaking of that match-up, you're going to be able to catch it sunday, 3:00 p.m. eastern time on abc. >> nfl commissioner roger goodell said the cowboys did not have to raise their jumbo screen. andy lee in the pregame warm-up hit it. second quarter, tony romo in a scoreless game scrambling. finding witten. romo 11-17 passing and good for 125. shaun hill your week-oner. arnaz battle reeling it in. jessica simpson's ex was going to get better after a loss.
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>> i'm always looking for satisfied. , so i don't think i think i have room to grow like a lot of guys in this room and i think you just keep getting better every day and thiis was just another opportunity today to improve and look at yourself and find out what i need to do differently and rectify that for the next time. >> the saints and raiders. one guy that is ready for prime time, drew brees. seems like he gets better each and every season. brees fires it to devery henderson. saints led 31-0 at the half. they win 45-7. >> if a 3-9 season wasn't bad enough, players from the 2008 and 2009 michigan football team told the detroit free press that the team routinely violated ncaa rules under coach rich rodriguez. the unidentified players said they practiced longer than the daily and weekly limits and were required to attend voluntary off-season workouts.
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in a statement to "the free press," rodriguez said, "we know the practice and off-season rules and we stay within the guidelines. we follow the rules and have always been completely committed to being complienlt with all ncaa rules." the >> fans from philly -- find out why they were shocked at what they saw saturday night. if you think being face to face with the wolf is scary we'll show you what it is like to be on the leaderboard with tiger
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how's the downturn affecting typical tuesday night dinner? what are you having for dinner tonight? it's tuesday, tuscani chicken alfredo, of course. let's cut. lasagna? next house. what are you having for-- here it is. friends wi firefighters he had firefighters were friends back right. he was the mayor of --rien with the mayor of boston and theyay [inaudible] he never met a sanger. he loved his own town and tk teddy at milton academy. they go out on sunday to the old west church had the
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italian and irish immigrants and in joe sr. often said so did jack and bobby that kennedy was the most natural campaigner and a natural politician and it has to do with his position in the family. he had to fight for air time and took on the role of the family mascot. he was fun and the petof the mily. they spoiledim and loved him and he did it very well. >> i want you to share with us some of the letters to your credit that you uncovered. those letters are just remarkable and speak to have a family shaped his personality. of course, he is the want in the letter the is that aspect but the letters are extraordinary. >> but kennedy member never threw anything away
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apparently. [laughter] whichas my pleasure i spend a lot of time in the jfk library and went through files and joe sr. bios and what i found, the kennedy parents are ally tough. peter said come you have these images of great football games in hyannis port, sailing, and that is true and gave all of their children privileges of wealth but they expect a lot i return. that was the kennedy brand. there were just obssed with learning and religion there were both obsess with perfection they insisted on that. second place is notood enough. new losers , now winding, , etc.. i will read you an excerpt because i just cannot do her justice.
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after kennedy became a senator, rose would write to him to chide him about his grammar. >> which would pay attention to this matter. use them after a proposition for whom the bell tolls. if you listen to jackson speeches youill notice he always uses this word correctly. use it objectively in english. [laughter] later when she was 85 and he was a trd term senator she wrote i watch to speak last friday night please say if i were presint modify was president. [laughter] the reason is what used to be called a condition contry to fact for instance if i were he. so you get t idea and these letters went on an on throughout all of their lives. >> very high standards but rather sadly, low expectations
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konz hindley -- is constantly disappointing his parents? >: tt mr. he was not a very good student and unfortunately was a pudgyid and they were obsessed with ways of her many letters referring to his way 10 being the fat kid and it is pretty brutal. but he was a victim of lower expectatns being the yogest of nine he was not taken very seriously and a huge irony at age 36 he became the patriarch of a family. d have the liberal democratic voice and he was not prepared for it, but who wod be? >> last year i had the opportunity to listen to the 1962 debate between ted kennedy and edward mccormick
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who was the attorney general of the state of massachusetts, the nephew of the house speaker. the nephew and a democratic presidential primary comment ted has just turned 30ears old. and in this is a time caple. the debate was not a debate it was in south boston and called a symposium on the respojsibility of men and gornment. nobody could get away with that today. but when you hear that debate in which young ted kennedy is just a broad cited by eddie mccormack who stepped out of character and just lambasting that is the famous line. at is the famous line that haunted him for a long time that was. >> you are any more at a
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kennedy it wld be a jok >> he was right. >> we will be cited again. >> if your name was, or were? [laughter] if your name was edw more your candidacy would be a joke. he was t patarch of the family and in 1962 he w considered a joke and unqualified for the race. and to mccormick was talking about the trade of the family
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navy was on his family named. [laughter] >> that was true he ran against a republican a sign from a large family who did not bring it up because he knew he was trading on his. everyone was. [laughter] but six years, when you go from 62 through 68, in an enormous fan of his life of the country because a 1962, i covered this letter from ted complaining to his father and they were priceless saying that any mccormick was convinced that teddy would not run and he was convince because he was at a reception in washington and bobby lers him with praise. teddy went to bobby and said
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where you doing this? i am running against him and he said i will say some nice things about you if you want too. [laughte bobby and jack did not want at 10 the two run and the advisers did not want them -- william to run it because he was vulnerable. >> to in the day meet with eddie mccormack to find his price to get out of the race? >> wed is typical with the intermediary. >> a 12 moven because to this part of it, it is teresting. cormick got smashed every nine in massachusetts was outraged how he had taken on e president's younger brother. mccormick was bashed and he realized life was unfair but interestingly within short order of the time he got elected allf a sudden the old bulls came to regard him for differently than they regarded his brother. >> that is intesti because
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it goes to family birth order. he was the runt the youngest of nine. when he came to the senate even more than today was the old man club and they expected him to be a brat to have the run of the place you came in and traded on the familyame but he did and ecause he knew how to be deferential and deal with elders. he is a great social intelligence that his brothers did not have been knowing how to size up a situation and how to read people and the self-deprecating the elders lo that and it served him well he went and learn how to be a junior senator. >> he was more hard-working than his oldest brother had been in the senate or his next older brother would be in the senate. >> absolutely. jack and especially bobby were not equipped for the senate. when bobby was elected as a
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way station running f the presidency, he would did say are you serious? this is what you do? e-wastthis time? he was the executive of the family and more so than jacked the day should jack they did not understood and teddy understood it and made it work for him. >> you have five years of in the scrabble terror,greed violence and we're still trying to cope with all these years later toet our heads arou. we will not cover those as ose are fairly well established. 19 is 681 of the most turbulent years in american history. then comes 1969 and a reporter for "the oston globe", jenna
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russell your book is as crime reportep? beuse that is chappaquiddick and the stain tha will not go away. it is interesting to seehe readers' comments on line at the globe and some of the comments are very, very hard. one of them i noted was a blind. where was the when mary jo was taking her last breath before drowning? tell u what new ground you uncovered. >> i think those comments are very strait game because what is remarkable is how strongly peoe still feel about chappaquiddick and how much i think her name is a realopic of conversation. there are literally dozens of books have been written just about chappaquiddick so i just
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wanted to setback and go to the archives which is a remarkable restores with detail hundreds of stories during the time these events happens. >> you don't hold anything back. of coue, one of the knocks ainst the glowed in your coverage his association with a liberal paper and a liberal senator and has been his friend and protector you do not hold very much back. the fact is if this wereo happen today any other candidate he would n be in the senate much longer? >> that is probably true. yes. very close to a different time that it was then. i was surprised to find how manyeople there sti are to talk to who were there police chief who investigated, said chappaquiddick very man and the man who hped kennedy get
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off the island and while there were many people who did not want to talk there were people i could still talk too. >> is striking to think everybody in that party was off of the island? what struck you most when you were looki back over t record? >> was struc me was people talk a lot about the g in the story and for good reason because there are those gaps but i went through the transcripts of the inquest and it is a remarkable resources, hundred of pagesn details about the people that were the, the eves, the place and if you start with at as raw material i wasble to go back and pee it back together. >> y end if i'm not mistaken, you end with the inquest and the stateme of
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the judge? >> right. >> they did fd there is reason to believe that kennedy was reckless and i part responsible for the death of mary jo. he did not believe the story they're headed for the very. >> we cannot leave this subject because obviously i believe it was you, spoke to john kennedy? bella english? excuse me. you did the interviewsith john. joan revealede tells she has not revealed before? >> she did. the ba that was the toughest for joan was the ft she was pregnant and she had already
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had three kids already and three miscarriages. she was on bed rest and was getting shots in her bottom regularly and patrick was two years old the@ time and ted asked her to accompany him to mary jo's funeral in pennsylvania and she describes of the bumpy airplane ride and when she got back she miscarried. and to this dayshe is filled with pain and i think she resents at and attributes that to that airplane ride. >> and her obligation to go with her husband to marry joe's fural. >> yes. >> did it the price is you, jenna russell, a level or depth of planes that goes on many years later from those who look at the senator?
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you hear these stories. was in alaska visiting my old home in alaska last year the first thing nablus somebody's mouth was you let that girl died. did it surprise you? >> i thi it does. part of that i feel comes from the fact there was such high hopes for kennedy before the accident hpened. in that wasoing to be the guy that got to the presidency and there is bitterness because of that but also because of the sense that too much has been seen with his tragedy would really the tragedy was the death of this very talented young woman. >> those hopes ner die. there were hopes he would get into the 1968 race, the 72 rays coming he did not. it was too soon.
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there were hopes sam allis coming in the 1976 race he d not do that then he final gets in the 1980 race and does not seem to be able to articulate why he is running and cannot do anything right. >> exactly. one thing about chappaquiddick because that leads int is, kennedy and his close visers in the summer o1979 when he was default deciding when he would run made a catastrophic miske and conclud cppaquiddicwould not be a major issue. theyould not have been more wrong. they see it as an obstacle there were so manyther huge issues to deal with it would be a problem. it plagued him throughout the 1980 cpaign which was a disaster. it plaed him in 1984,e was
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runninfor president again most people think he lost and said he will be king of the senate. his staff prepared a detailed blueprint of how to run in 84 hiring tim russert as press secretary trying to get george llace endorsement but with that kennedy had to look at reagan was a popular predent of mcclinton the interrupt you but let me go back because 80 was his real run. nothing seemed to work for him. talk about that run. >> he was totally unprepared it was clear to everybody from the beginning from the famous 3306 wordnswer that was rambling, he never wanted to run. i think from the people i talked to by his close advisers coming he knew he had to run at some point* he was
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getting the noise in his head when you going to do? it was a parlor game when h would do it, not if he hado run cause he was the last kenned in 198the he ran to get t noise out of his head. he was tired that and he wasn't prepad as you saw from the beginning but the most un kennedy like he ran a very disorganized and messy campaign. he did not have any of this stuff together, he d not fund-raisers properly he did not do with a kennedy does. thatent on and he was crucified fema did not think chappaquiick would be an issue but it was as it was in illinois primary and everywhere it came back to hauntim. >> you don't think he wanted to run and that was the
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problem? remicade think he was ambivalent but he knew he had to but one of his old of pfer's told me that he never called me at 2:00 in the morning and said i wanted to n no woody could rall a private cversation were he expressed a passion to repressive and. is that why he was so terrific? it was out of his hands and he started to win primaries? >> there is a law of pitical physics that they were always better when you don't have a chance anymore. dukakis was good in the last cole of weeks and that happens all the time. that happened here he sd i will be myself. bu he still got nailed a lot. he was considered by carter's pearl and most pele would call him a bad loser. normally first we tught he would get ou after illinois after a zero chance then he stayed in throughout the end
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and then he would not quit and he took his fight to the coention on the idea that he would get a boat through bella all of delegates who were pledge to other candidates to be freeo vote for him. it was absurd and it fced jimmy carter to spend a tremendous amount of time a money heat on him that he could have devoted to ronald reagan. >> also in the seconhalf of the campaign it improved. it was not just as you p it people are out the best when they'reosing but by that time ronald reagan had pretty much broug up the republic 10 denominations idea how this charismatic figure who is running on theotal destruction of these programs in the '60s that were associated wh ted but also his brothers and played into that sense of family
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obligation because even if he personally did not have the fire in hi belly but he fend days about the kennedy legy meant something. he became more of a liberal. >> i1984 when you had a 16 reagan president and 79 he was running against carter he won new york and california? >> by one miracle by his staff he was down almost points day of the primar and pollsts got wrong the one that did get right was the one working for carter and said we will get creamed. and he won by almost 20 points from a 1984 mondale expects kennedy will be the nominee. that is amazi when he was the heir apparent as finicky new with ted was going to run he did not have the cnce said he was on pins and nele waiting for ted to
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make up his mind he was a popular president with chappaquiddick that ruined him in the 1980 campaign and he knew he would come back and continue to savage him d his kids to not want him to do with and a large increase in is they did not want to do but there had to be other reasons. >> so the russis and 80 and is badly beaten and doesn't run again and that is when i about srted toover the senator. i remember, it seems to me the lowest period in his career is when i saw the late 80's or early 90's where he seems to be nervous and public and they were with grammar i used to
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sit in the back of the room during a produce conference coming a predicate senator, a predicate they were very, very long what seafaring sentences without a predicate in them. but worst of all isis public behavior and open association with womanizing, heavy drinking. can you put this in context where politics and personal bevior meet? that was in the anita hill hearings. >> rig. preceded by the palm beach rape trial. ifomebody asked me in the arcf his life i may be a little prejudice because of wh i reported and wrote to bu what was the year that was the most defining of ted kennedy? maybe not in a legislative nse but in a personal sense and a transformative sense of
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the cultu and the media around him all have to say 1991 was the extraordinary year it was around polled-- well-publicized stories about his binge drinking and womanizing. he lood terrible. it was hard to turn on "the tonight show" an not cat a few ted kennedy jokes. the weekend began and palm beach the next thing minnow his nephew is accused of raping a girl at the family estate with one of his sons there. ted nishesrom palm beach, tre is a lot of suspicion over a cover-up around willie smith. it was the first time as jack, one of the correspondents said the tabloid press the "national
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enquer" and the mainstream pres"the new york times" cord the globeonverged of their coverage of a case. you may have that going on they move to this summer of clarce thomas now kennedy as billion we reported, had fought again the now medication -- nomination by proceeded to be the key guide to take on the arch conservative nominee to the court. into the process, and need but station needed hill turns up and suddenly the whole country is fixated on sexual harassment, ted kennedy retrieves to the background and does not say much if everybody is speculating cause is tenth own behavior. in the middle of fact, he goes
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to an anniversary party f some old friends and louisiana, edmund and meats or be meets one of their daughters, vicki and ver quietly and very much below the radar begins a relationship that i would argue totally transformed last 1520 years of his life. you have this going on in the end the year and with a trial. court tv had just come on the air. first they fought against having court stays camerasnd the court room. it is beyond the court tv phenomenon now there's international attion on the trial and ted kennedy turns up and testify is e is cool and
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composed, and by the end of that year, actually, that trial until o.j. was the most watched trial so if you think about what was going on outside the senate were his political life but in his personal life of was happening in the old media environment around ted kennedy was an extraor@inary months. he cameut of it still headed to the 1994 senate reeleion race where he faced mitt romney was to be the most formidable oppent. still damaged goods ready to put up an incredible fight. >> this leads us to do don aucoin blue was around the romney campaign which was critical and susan milligan in washington said a reporter
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wh is it? >> i don't know. >> let's talk to the two of europe light tclose this convsation with y. in additn to the scandal and personal tragedy, there had been since the early '60s legislative accomplishments that have drawn the attention and the approval of the old the korea and he has to step-- established a reputation although theenate is a more tolerant institution of its members than the public. i but low -- los rotations t low was it could be in the beginning of the '90s but the book is called the "last lion" summit to a view our document came the day 10 of the lion of the but? talk about the campaign. >> it was very intense, the
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stiffest challenge the polls showed him down at 1.. at that point* labor rally is far behind him and force and a consultant finds a company that romney had arranged a takeover of than the company had laid off its workers and although they were on leave it proved devastati they put the workers on tv talking about how fell to lose their jobs. it was a dagger well. >> had did kennedy feel afterwards? >> lucky. jubilant, revitalizes, he faced mortal political dangers remain key was in a whole and
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largely that campaign was the board did to begin with the. >> that organization. yes all the people that carried him throughout the earland middle stages rushed to his side and he found his ice and the famous debate he slammed down to romney and his command of policy detail, command of the in and out of the senate d his nimble feet what you mean with the absence of predicates but this time he could shape enough coherent sentences but of met ron may left nominal rate -- nominated you know, when it is legislative four. >> it is tha least succeeds to cover, is this politics that draw a l of attention. we tal about scandals but
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tell me, how would did you see kennedworkg? it seems his accomplishments in the end are all of the day-to-day details coming meetgs and lobbying anpaul c@lls? >> i know they you define day's sitting senator who it is one of the most effective in history and whether or not they agree politically, he has been short this sounds like an odd thing to say but if you look at his earlier days when he went up against nixon in the health-ca debate and he wanted a healtcare plan that looked remarkably what the democrats would like to get past right now which is the employer provided so forth and backed up by government kennedy wanted a health-care plan and there was none.
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they he a second shot during thelinton administration that did not go anywhere, this was his third chance and he is seizing it. but sometimes you have get the structure in place. he told me several years ago in retrospect maybe ty should have done the nixon health-care plan and do the details later he learned to do things ever mentally when he cannot get exactly what he wants. he has been a big leader and the immigration debate and he is so good at pulling it together it is so bizarre to see this group there were people like diane feinstein and barack obama and mel martez a republica from florida and lindsay gramm fr south capolina who then not like the idea of immigrants coming in and taking jobs he sits in a room and writes the bill he made everybody talk about how their families came to america so it was a
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poignant moment in that brought people together and ma them realize the bigger picture and he almost got it and it failed. i was talking to him after words i said i know that you were tarred he said with any legislation that this civil rights and he considered it to be that, it takes 83 congress to do with the first time they get used to the adr the second time a fight in the third time it goes through and he was very philosophical he has done that with so many bills to come back year after year and ever since the obama was elected president, he got the lilly ledbetter act signed which is morepportuty for people to sue for past discrimination he got than genetic nondiscrimination act signed into law and has bee fighting for that 10 years it is just picking his moments in working with republicans he has a very great relationship
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with orrin hatch you doesn't smoke or drink they work very well together. >> is striking with all of the partisanship and to look again at the readers'ments, you the billn the setian and hostility some strong disagreement but at the same time perhaps this is alluilt up since the early 90's are leftover fro chappaquiddick but especial built up he was more effective than ever in dealing people with the sun and. >> his very well-respected and he works very hard and hard work is respected, hidlary clinton had issues not of personal behavior but people are wondering if she was trading on her name and s hunker down and resed for her
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hard work but he knows how to play people we have the upper use he was trying to negotiate with trucks for the immigration bill he is the tax then who loves his cigars of kenny went over he brought eight pinellas envelope and he had some cigars and nobody could see h opened it so they could see it and they would open net and when it winter the way he would push a and i did it he would pull back and brooks thought it was hilarious bu he did get a deal. he isery good at picking people out and what you would not expect. he finds a way to find common ground. the other thing, it is funny because people have an idea of him as a legend but when you know, him personally he is normal and what of least
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pretentious people i have ever met and paradoxicallyhat becomes more powerful because he is such a big figure if you said in his office with all of the mementos and the handwritn note from jack and it is more powerful because you cannot escape the history of his familyut he does that with new members and brings them into his hideaway and flatters them with the attention. >> i cant help to think that goes back to being one of ni children the gregarious this and the fact there is no sense seemingly of entitlement. >> right. clearly he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth but show eecially was adamant that his kids not the spoiled. he gave them $1.50 per week
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for allowance and when teddy was that milton academy he wrote his father -- father as i can have a bicycle he said how many kids there have there buy? he said just a few. no. you can have at have something with somebody else has in the same thing at harvard he wanted a corn on his car and joe found out and had a fit and said you cannot draw attention yourself like this. it is okay to get attention when you earn on your own merits but not to buy it. >> real open this conveation up now if anybody has a questionome down and ask one of hour many candidates on the panel. as you do that, [applause]
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the microphone is over here. i forge it who wrote the sty but for me it was somewhere in the book to come back after all of this and to become it was a story very powerful one moment and apparently have been several times he was walking at the mall and a car backfires? tell the story. >> his chief counsel on labor committee and the sator were walking back from the capital to the office building and a car backfired. rollins looked around for the senator and he was on the ground. because she heard something like at and his family history wasuch an he looked up and
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said you never know. [laughter] >>n may 1968, the craziness and not knowing how much worse itould get, ted kennedy after seeing his brother with months is aed to be the nominee to save the democraticarty. mayor daley in chicago was coinced release of the democrats could not win and they came to him as you can imagine his fragile emotional state after losing both of his brothers than being asked to save the party? that illustrat what is within him. >> i was struck by have forgotten how to close the events were november 63 then the plane crash which was march 64? >> tune 64.
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said in a period of half of the year his brother is murdered and he is almost lled in a plane crash where two people are killed. and i was told last year that he had ft line ttight in the hospital. >> it was very, very close to the end for him. and the fact by the way while he was recuperating, he did change he was strapped in the bed four months at a time. among the leers he got and from his mother telling him to work on his speeches and his grammar and. [laughr] >> his campaign manager told

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