he can do barbara jordan's placider well-nobody takes her mess. when she left, he sat in the seat, and big part of my roots are from texas so when mickey and i met up, there was an affinity we had for each other, and his family deposited me. so mickey and i became like blood brothers. he had been delivering food in africa and he was an incredible guy, and i love mickey leeland because he had no sacred cows. i remember we went in the house dining room and there were a number of my more conservative colleagues at one of the tables in the dining room, and mickie said, ron, come with me. p we walked up to the table and said, how you guys in the sheet caucus? how would you like to have a couple of colored fellows and have breakfast with you? oh, my god. but mickey had a way of cutting through. they laughed and cried but we sat down and had breakfast. i love mickey leyland. mickey was on his way to ethiopia, and i said, mickey, don't go to africa again alone. next time you go, i'm going with you. ron, i'm leaving on monday. i'm going to ethiopia to deli

when i came to the house of representatives barbara jordan was completing her last term. i sat next to her periodically and learned a lot about parliamenttary procedure. congresswoman jordan was one of the great leaders of our time and worked with wonderful people like the legendary tip o'neill. in the united states and of course nancy pelosi, nancy and i went to the same -- grew up in baltimore. she in little italy and i in the polish neighborhood. we went to the same girls catholic high school. little did we know when we wore navy blue jumpers and could only play half court basketball that we would be doing a full court press in the house and the senate. >> what's next for you? do you intend to stay in the senate? any other aspirations? >> i think being in the united states senate is one of the greatest jobs in america. i have a six-year term to think about the people of maryland and our country. and i think about it every day. for me it's not how long you serve, but how well you serve. you know, growing up in a neighborhood in baltimore my father ran a little neighborh

wonderful people in both the house and the senate when i came to the house of representatives, barbara jordan was completing her last term. and i sat next to her periodically and learned a lot about the parliamentary procedure. congresswoman jordan was one of the great leaders of our time. and worked with wonderful people like the legendary tip o'neill. in the united states, and of course nancy pelosi. nancy and i went to the same -- grew up in baltimore. she in little italy, and i in the polish neighborhood. we went

this was richard jordan here now to explain what happened. welcome. >> thanks, barbara and wendy.turns out a group of eighth graders at liberty middle school were asked to do a political research paper but the assignment was specific to the gop presidential candidates. the students were told to dig up the candidates' so-called vulnerabilities. the teacher also asked students to identify which campaign office would benefit from the research. that answer would be the obama campaign. when one student went home and mentioned the project, a parent became concerned. the assignment was taking a political side. the parent complained to a school board member, who alerted the principal at liberty middle school. the principal told the teacher not to assign the same project again. >> that if he were to give this assignment again that, you know, give the kids the opportunity to pick the candidate of their choice, do some research on either party and also to emphasize the fact that it has, this assignment has to do more with learning about the political process and not endorsing one candidate o