friends, in good times and in bad times, like you and john were there for me and jill when what is in the hospital. you were there for us when our son beau was deployed, and you were there when we buried him. it's all about being personal. annie, you and john, as was mentioned earlier by the first speaker, were with, i happened to be with ethel kennedy at an awards ceremony in new york, the ripple of hope ceremony. i was ironically, fellow who runs my office who is an ohio guy said john wasn't doing well. you ought to call john. i had a brief discussion with ethel. i sat with her. the story is well known about him talking to the kids and being sent back to green hill. what struck me was, i was told that when you and john got to hickory hill, john walked into senator kennedy's private study and saw that robert kennedy, who was the only political rival i had in my life, had out a book of ralph walter emerson's poetry. it was opened up and a leaf of the book there in the margins were comments made by robert kennedy. and the passage that john, i'm told, remembered was where emerson said, "this time, like all times, is a very good one if we b