. >> chris dodd said at thewake for ted kennedthat one of the reasons he was so ccessful is that peop liked im. was that the key tohis ability to wk with membersof other parties? because certainly other senators tried tdo that. other senators have servedas lonor longer another senators are knowledgeable s it the ennedy name orwhat was it tt made him so abl to work with otr senators and carry them along? >> only o other snators in history servedonger than ed kennedy. 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