when a got a richard cory he could recite it all along with me. is an extremely powerful poem, the images are so vivid that once you're committed to memory it is going to be there for a long time. image of the suicide is such an unexpected ending to that poem, that is disturbing. it enters your consciousness like a bolt of lightning. is a wonderful poem. did you get started and decide to study the connection between presidents and poetry? >> how did i get started on the project? about 10 years ago i was told to write an essay. in a processof preparing that essay, i had to do a lot of research on robinson. review on this book written by theodore roosevelt. so surprised by that, the president taking his time to write a book review. my mind around that. the essay on robinson and then went back, and that more research on roosevelt to find out what was going on. i read about roosevelt i started to get all this information about him as a lover of poetry. i was stunned by it. so i wrote an essay on that. then i thought i was finished, i started to recall

>> i have a story in regard to the poem "richard cory." it was one of my husband's favorites. he could site it in its entirety. in his last few days he lost the power of speech. but i got a book out and i would read it to them, and whenever i would get to "richard cory," he could recite along with me even though he had lost the ability to speak. >> yes, "richard cory," is an extremely powerful poem. and closing it with a suicide is such an unexpected ending to that poem that it is disturbing. it just enters your conscious like able to lightning, doesn't it? so yeah, it is a wonderful poem. yeah. yes? >> how did you -- how did you get started and decide to study the connection between presidents and poetry? >> yes, the question is, how did i get started on this project? about tenures ago i was asked to write an essay on edwin arlington robinson for a collection of essays on him. and so in the process of preparing that essay, i had to do a lot of research on robinson. i came upon this book review that i mentioned was written by president theodore roosevelt. and i was so surprise

whether they'll be the party of richard murdoch and todd aiken or the party of cory gardner and coryardner, sam stein, a guy that won in colorado. yet another state that barack obama has won twice. i get the sense i could be wrong. you're on the hill more than i am. i get a sense that these republicans just got elected understand what went wrong in 2010 and they're going to school to make sure that their actions over the next two years don't elect hillary clinton. >> i mean, mitch mcconnell has waited his entire career to be majority leader. he'll do whatever he can to hold onto that title in two year's time. it's a difficult balancing act obviously for him because you have people like ron johnson and pat toomey running in democratically leaning states in a presidential cycle while at the same time in the same caucus he has people like ted cruz and rand paul who will be probably running for president along with marco rubio. you have two dynamic polls going on here. mitch mcconnell has a difficult job. he is savvy enough and knows what he needs to do to make sure the party has a chanc

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