and as senator reed has explained, joe garrahy brought goodwill wherever he went. he turned to politics and to public service with the 1960 presidential campaign of john f. kennedy. joe followed his path himself ultimately with election to the rhode island senate, and then he was elected statewide as lieutenant governor, and then he served two terms as rhode island's governor. serving as chief of state in the very statehouse where his mother had once cleaned floors. it was a beautiful american success story for him to rise to lead the statehouse that his mother had cleaned. the story was told at his funeral, that when he was lieutenant governor and she was still cleaning the statehouse, he said, "mom, don't you want to, you know, find something else to do now that i'm here as lieutenant governor." and she turned to him and she said, "joe, i got here first." in his public life, joe garrahy always made the effort to be what he once described as probably one of the easiest guys in the state of rhode island to get along with. he sure was. i don't think anyone who has wo