strom thurnd and rbert byr. part of it w longevity. he came from an era in the senate where people d get ong, where peopleere friends. they coul be adversari on legislation but they ultimately coulput those kinds of things aside. a man knon for sall estures for rembering your children's namesnd for gifts and small kindnesses that i think mnt a lot to hi colleagues. >> i have no idea how in tha busy life that h led that he managed to carveout time to do so many act of pesonal generosity for smany peope. i wroteabout this when -- t the outset of hisillness. and i was just flood with more xamples of things that ted knnedy had done himself not sending someody else todo it. for other people. >>-- gwen: who hos that torch, he was unque in his liberalism and ability reach across the aisle, who doe it? said when he endrsed bara obama that heas passing the torch to him but it's not really quite the sam is it? >> it'sinteresting ecause i was bckstage at th endorsement when ted knedy did ndorse arack obama in nuary. and i asked im, i said, so you