c.e.o. of common cause a nonprofit. as an organization working to strengthen our democracy and make our government more palatable to the people he's also author of the book middle church reclaiming the moral values of the faithful majority from the religious right pleased to welcome here in studio is dr bob edgar welcome it's great to be with you great to have you with us you served as the democratic representative one of them from pennsylvania that's a very recent congress i'm curious what got you into politics and what advice you would have for today's politicians october twentieth one nine hundred seventy three richard nixon fired archibald cox who was the special prosecutor looking into watergate i looked the word democratic up in the telephone book and i moved in one year from being vice chairman of my son's parent teacher's organization to getting elected to the united states congress as one of the watergate babies at age thirty one i had never been to a political meeting before archibald cox was fired i had no exp