so when ted came down to the mcconnell center he brought a perfect photo of john sherman cooper with john f. kennedy with an inscription and this is what it said -- i know how much john f. kennedy admired cooper in the senate and so did i. the perfect gift. i don't think any speaker i had has ever brought a gift. ted did. he obviously asked somebody on staff to do some work, to come up with the appropriate thing to do. the touch that i so much appreciated. even though one was a democrat and the other republican, they forged many alliances. as i indicated they work together on the civil rights bill, so did ted. he picked up his load when his brother was gone and he and senator cooper got the bill across the war. what we saw in the ultimate triumph of the civil rights act was the senate at its best. almost nobody in america can tell you this today, but to show you how bipartisan it was, a higher percentage of republicans voted for the civil rights bill and democrats do because in those days they were still the southern democrats which was a significant part of the democratic coalition.

. >> john sherman cooper, one of the saints of the senate and also a republican. and he had enormous prestige in that senate as a gifted staff member. and he was able, he knew exactly what had to be done. he was an old hand. and then i think you'd have to say that the executive branch -- maybe with a little time -- but they ended up, in effect supporting what we were all doing. you have to give some credit to president ford who was not an idealogue, probably a little afraid of the process but wanted, i think, to succeed. he had attorney general levy -- levi -- levy from the university of chicago who became a tremendous supporter as head of the justice department in shaping regulations and rules and became a believer before it was over. and so the contrast of this committee that worked together excellent staff that provided that same background and then cooperating not perfectly -- the executive branch cooperating not perfectly, but when you think of what we asked of them and what they delivered, one of the jobs i had as chairman of this committee domestic task for

. >> john sherman cooper one of the saints of the senate and also a republican. and he had enormous prestige in that senate as a gifted staff member. and he was able he knew exactly what had to be done. he was an old hand. and then i think you'd have to say that the executive branch -- maybe with a little time -- but they ended up, in effect supporting what we were all doing. you have to give some credit to president ford who was not an idealogue, probably a little afraid of the process but wanted i think, to succeed. he had attorney general levy -- levi -- levy from the university of chicago who became a tremendous supporter as head of the justice department in shaping regulations and rules and became a believer before it was over. and so the contrast of this committee that worked together excellent staff that provided that same background and then cooperating not perfectly -- the executive branch cooperating not perfectly, but when you think of what we asked of them and what they delivered, one of the jobs i had as chairman of this committee domestic task force