we miss him. >> ted began life as the youngest child of joseph and rose kennedy. ch ted's mother rose died in 1995 at the age of 104. >> rose kennedy does not get mere due, her ability to infuse the exact right combination of competition and compassion. there is no precedent in a democratic society for what she created, this royal family. >> some people enjoy a life that's normal and mediocre. other people respond to challenges and adventure attainment. that's what we are. >> rose lived long enough to see generation after generation of kennedys served their country. >> today all of you young athletes are in the arena. >> eunice founded the special olympics. jean was an incredible ambassador who helped to bring peace to northern ireland. >> jack and jackie's daughter caroline became the u.s. ambassador to japan. >> i'm also proud to carry forward my father's legacy of public service. >> you have joseph kennedy ii, bobby and ethel's oldest son who served a number of terms in congress, along with his cousin patrick. kathleen kennedy townsend who was a lieutenant gover

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those behind the scenes of the kennedy clans getting together, really focused on trying to save ted kennedy'save the kennedy name and all of that. >> we tell the truth, at least our version of it. it ends with an appeal to the people that elected me. we need to remind them that this family perseveres that we don't back down from a fight, that we don't get backed into a corner. we have a true compass and we follow it. >> martha: i can imagine that you're sitting there wondering. >> that was hard to watch, but not unknown to most people who lived through the kennedy era. most politicians have those types of personal family meetings to negotiate strategy, but it was a little hard. we kept thinking that he would make a right decision, but he had plenty of chances to do that. he just didn't do it. >> martha: third is a suggestion that she didn't drown, that she suffocated and was alive for a long time and that car. i wonder what you think about that. >> that's one of the hardest things we had to accept. her parents in particular thought that she had died instantly. a few years after she died, they

his name, ted kennedy. at age 37, he had his eyes on the white house.ator kennedy left the party in his black olds mobile with 28-year-old mary jo kopechne. he somehow careened his car off a bridge and into the water. he escaped. kopechne died. the new movie chappaquiddick is taking a hard look at the deadly events and the scandal that crushed ted kennedy's white house dream. watch. >> it was an accident. i was driving. >> a story like this could dominate the headlines for weeks. >> we have a body. >> dead body holds a lot of secrets. >> those can be the difference between guilt and innocence. >> that's what we need to be in control over. there's not a lot of senators charged with manslaughter that go on to become president. >> what do we do to help the senator? >> we tell the truth. or at least our version of it. >> diagnosed with a concussion. >> joining us now, jason clark, the actor portraying senator ted kennedy. jason, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us, and especially given i know you have a new baby at home. congratulations. >>

they also gave two votes to mcgovern and one for ted kennedy. 94 votes forote is vice president humphrey18 for senator mccarthy, 2% of mcgovern and one for senator kennedy. oklahoma, 41. casts .5 vote for phillips. for mcgovern. mccarthy.for senator 37.5 votes for vice president humphrey. >> the oklahoman vote is as votes for vice president humphrey. 2.5 votes for senator mccarthy. andote for senator mcgovern phillips.r mr. howard: three states have passed so far. this is the vote for organ coming up. oregon coming up. oregon has 35 votes. >> 35 for senator mccarthy. [applause] howard: mccarthy lost one vote. 130 votes, expected to cost 104. this could put humphrey across. [applause] howard: apparently they know it down there. they've been keeping count, too. politicians are pretty good with pen and paper when it comes to counting votes. >> three quarters of a vote for senator ted kennedy. 2.5 four mcgovern. 21.54 senator mccarthy. 103 -- >> this is going to do it. vice president hubert humphrey is that nominee of the democratic party for the presidency of the united states. he went over

. >> so then ted kennedy became the only remaining kennedy son left after the deaths of his older brothersnge of assuming the mantle of both jack and wouldnbobby and his early c was a mix of success and scandal. tell us more about that. >> ted kennedy, the kennedy brothers from the beginning thought of the presidency as some either could be passed from one to the other to the other. john f. kennedy talked in 1963 about how he might want to serve as secretary of state to either president bobby kennedy or president ted kennedy. so it was in the dna. but in 1969 ted kennedy shows a horrific moral flaw in the incident. there are mysteries about it that will never be resolved, but one of the things we know is he did not do the right thing. he did not inform the police. and we don't know the extent to which he could have saved her, but he certainly didn't. so from 1969 on, he's carrying this burden. what's remarkable is despite this burden, many americans still saw him as the third president, as a third kennedy to run for president. so there was a lot of pressure on him to run for office. in 197

i retraced the route that ted kennedy took that night.es out of a house party, makes a right, go to the "t" intersection. roll the movie that shows what i'm describing. the edgartown ferry is to the left. the beach to the right. there it is. there's the sign. he goes to the beach. there's only one reason he's going to the beach. right? >> well, you know, you can only speculate really what his intentions were. we didn't go into the salacious facts of a lot of the whispers and rumors that were around, you know, their relationship. we tried to tell the facts. he did take that right turn, went down dike road, a dark road and hit that bridge on an angle and the car went in. >> he denied infidelity. what got him in trouble is not so much the accident. it's the fact that he then went back to edgartown, went to bed, went to brunch the next morning without ever having reported the accident. true? >> yes, that's what happened. you know? the writers used the inquest as their source material and, you know, once you added up all those things for the -

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senator ted kennedy drove his car off a bridge and escaped to swim to shore.old former rfk campaign worker died in the car. kennedy waited until the next day to report the incident. and miss account of the night never really added up. today he probably would be ousted, but it was a different time and kennedy ended up remaining a senator. still the scandal surrounding that night did forever tarnish him preventing him from ever being a serious presidential candidate able to continue his brother's legacy. a new movie called chappaquiddick dives deep into the events of that night. >> it was an accident. i was driving. >> something like this could dominate the headlines for weeks. >> we got a body. >> dead body holds a lot of secrets. >> joining me now is the producer. mark, on chappaquiddick on a bike i retraced the route ted kennedy took that night. he comes out of a house party, takes a right and goes to a "t" intersection. the ferry is to the left. the beach is to the right. theres is. there is the sign. there is only one reason he is going to the beach, right?

in 1969 ted kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge into a pond and his passenger, mary jo today it to the public. >> we tell the truth, or at least our version of it. and it ends with an appeal to the voters, to the people that elected me. we need to remind them that this family perseveres, that we don't back down from a fight, that we don't get backed into a corner. we have a true compass and we follow it. >> jason clark, good morning. >> good morning. >> this is a big role to take on, an iconic american figure. >> that's a big color dress there. >> it is. is it distracting? i should have brought you sunglasses. >> no, it's wonderful. it is, absolutely. it sounds innocuous, drive a car off a bridge into a pond. >> yes, but with incredible consequences. >> incredible consequences that still keep rippling out, excuse the pun. >> so ted kennedy, you're australian, we know that. we hear it in your accent. were you familiar with this story? how much did you even know about ted kennedy? >> i was born the day before it happened, the 17th of july, they took off for the moon. i knew not

three quarters of a vote for senator ted kennedy, 2.5 votes 21.5 for sen.ccarthy, and 1034 hubert humphrey. theer: hubert humphrey is nominee of the democratic party for the presidency of the united states. he went over by some five and a half votes of the 1311 he needed. humphrey supporters going wild there. >> sunday at 88:30 a.m. eastern, we are live continuing our series 1968 america in turmoil with a look at the vietnam war at home. not only in the jungles of streets.ut also on asked of civil disobedience had the headlines. sunday here on american history tv. >> on c-span, monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, health executives on challenges facing hospitals and the state of health care. >> people can now visit since the start of obamacare. they go for screening more effectively when they have insurance. it has driven down the death because peopleee were identified and diagnosed earlier. >> tuesday, a doctor and wife of facebook founder ceo discussing philanthropic endeavors. we take a whole child approach in thinking about what each student means to succeed. c

now ted kennedy is the senator who knows what he's doing. >> as ted charts his own pl political coursemily. >> misfortune strikes the kennedy family once again. senator edward ken difs injured when his private kplaen crashed in the woods near south hampton, massachusetts. >> two die in the crash. ted kennedy is dragged from the wreckage with a broken back. >> in any other family, to have one of the primary members in their plane crash that almost kills him and gives him permanent back problems would be at the top of the list of tragedies. but in the kennedys, it's just another check off on the list. >> two months later, a traumatized bobby addresses the dratti natiol convention as it hons jack's memory. >> and now it is my privilege and honor to introduce the man who stood closer to him than anyone else, his brother, robert kennedy. >> the place just breaks into this heartfelt cathartic applause. and he stands there and this goes on for five minutes and ten minutes and it overwhelms him. >> i was by myself and i watched that 17-minute ovation, which was very, very move iing. because it

the full measure of ted kennedy is not his sin that he did in chappaquiddick. the full measure is this individual who was able to have a life in public service. i feel the same way. i disagree with his policies, with ted kennedy's policies, but i know that the full measure of a human being is not just focusing on things that i may disagree with in their personal life. that's how i feel about this president. >> you know what, i will grant you, i 100% agree with you in that regard. but peter, with regard to evangelicals, what is your explanation for their relative silence? >> well, we need to, having just come back from memphis and being honored to be a part of the civil rights memorial to dr. king, we have to say there are white evangelicals and there are black evangelicals. from all the reporting i've seen and the white evangelicals i've spoken to, and the black evangelicals, first of all, most of the white evangelicals are talking about coming to washington to celebrate the president. i think it's quite ironic they'll do it at a hotel where he'll actually make

opposition party who can't stand this president where is robert byrd he's in his grave whereas ted kennedy he's in his grave the democrats are dreadfully silent tonight in support i guess silence give support over what the president is that least thinking about doing advertising that he's going to hit syria russia get out of the way oh yeah i think that's i think it's not seeing anything anybody on the left of really having that anti-war it's as if there are no anti-war voices in congress i mean why and you know even during the two thousand and three you bring up to the iraq war we had some people that now that were saying something and now we're not now let's say that the united states fires missiles into syria and russia makes good on on their statement and shoots them down. what happens next where does the escalation go from that will that's the scary thing no one knows and no one on capitol hill is asking that question that's what's even more ominous how well thought out is this the united states i would go so far as to say is they don't completely know who the technology that exists i

ted kennedy in the fantastic new "chappaquiddick."on clarke joins us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] and her book, "tomorrow will be different: love, loss, and the fight for trans equality", is available now. sarah mcbride is on the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] so you're here on a good one. before we get to all of that, president trump has floated the possibility of replacing his embattled attorney general with his embattled epa administrator. meanwhile, he's breaking his silence on the stormy daniels story. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: despite trump repeatedly bending over backwards in every possible way to kowtow to russian president vladimir putin, trump this week insisted that he has actually stood up to putin more than any previous president. >> how are you going to deal with president vladimir putin? is he as your enemy or as someone you can have dialogue with? >> well, i think we'll be able to get great dialogue, i hope. but if we can't, you'll be the first to kno

let's take a look. >> everybody, raise your glasses to the senator. >> ted kennedy, the white house, > the biggest local coverups and how much of a new about what went on behind the scenes. >> a lot of elements, irish catholic american, knowing about the kennedys is pretty important. >> what happened to you? >> chappaquiddick was the classic example of and entitled empowered people. >> tell the truth, or at least our version of it. it ends with an appeal to the people that elected me. >> i wavering between saying chappaquiddick would never happen in this day and age meaning the cover-up and then i am like i don't know. >> i think you need to learn stories like this and educate yourself to work out where we are and why we are. >> get the inside story when chappaquiddick hits theaters this friday. >> what have i done? >> i didn't know this was set against the backdrop of the apollo moon landing, political tragedy and a crisis. our management standpoint and all the machinations behind the scene. jillian: what surprised you most? >> the context of it, being set against the apollo moon lan

. >> it was one of the great speeches that ted kennedy ever gave. he was capable of great speeches. e american people learned about this great skill he had, which was something in the kennedy jeans. at that particular time -- kennedy genes.at that time, ted kennedy responsibilitye of being the leader of the kennedy clan. people in the political world also recognized that. thatdy himself changed at point. there was the chappaquiddick incident after that. he became a full person, full politician, when he suddenly realized there were none of his ,rothers around any longer pulled onto the senior member of the clan. , mostk as a senator everybody right and left would agree that ted kennedy was an extraordinary senator after that. host: next call is william from new york city. good millet -- good morning. welcome. go ahead, william. caller: yes. i just like to say for the lost the -- yes. and like to correct the record that kennedy lost the primary in time --and the first that was the first time kennedy had ever lost the election.on the third, tribe -- neither of your content knew that. ma

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, which was something in the kennedy jeans. , think at that particular time people realize that ted kennedy had taken upon himself the responsibility of being the leader of the kennedy clan. people in the political world also recognize that. changed at that point. there was an incident after that, but he became a full person, and a full politician when he realized that there were none of his brothers around any longer and he was the kid called upon to be the senior member of the clan. senator, most everybody right and left would agree that ted kennedy was an extraordinary senator. william from new york city. good morning. to say i would just like losthe record, ted kennedy . i would just like to correct the record that kennedy lost the primary in oregon, and that was the first time the family had ever lost an election. i am surprised neither of your ommentators knew that, >> i like to think everybody from a wave as a winner oregon. you are totally correct. gene mccarthy one that. but then kennedy recovered in california. good catch on that. jeff from olympia fields, illinois. i appreciate c

, because after the president announced he was not going to run for reelection, we had bobby kennedy, and ted sorensen down to the white house and the president met with them in the cabinet room. and he was very stern with him. basically lecturing -- the president lecturing bobby kennedy on not doing things that's going to interrupt or disrupt the peace settlement in vietnam. you can tell then that the two people did not have the warmest of relationships. mr. scully: of course, that settlement did not take place in 1968. former rep. jones: right. mr. scully: take us back to the evening of march 31. the speech is over. you're in the white house. paint a picture. what was it like? what was lady bird johnson saying to president johnson, what was the interactions with president johnson, what are you seeing and hearing? former rep. jones: well, after the speech the president went into the little office off the oval office and received and made phone calls. one of the interesting phone calls was to nelson rockefeller -- because -- or rockefeller to him, because he was the governor of new york. john

. >> jimmy: ted kennedy. >> yeah, in 1969, ted kennedy drove his car off of a bridge in chappaquiddickit. so i'm excited to be able to tell the story. >> jimmy: great acting all around, including you. i want to show a clip. here's kate mara in "chappaquiddick." take a look at this. [ applause ] >> what were you going to say before? before we were interrupted about bobby? >> no, never mind. >> no? go on, you were going to ask. after bobby was killed -- why didn't i run in his place? what would you have done? you know, if you were me, and he was your brother, what would you have done? >> i'd quit. leave washington, never look back. which is exactly what i did. but i'm not you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: kate mara, everybody! "chappaquiddick" is in theaters this friday. we'll be right back with music from chris lane featuring tori kelly! stick around, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: guys, performing "take back home girl" featuring tori kelly off of his ep, "take back home." give it up for chris lane! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ duffle bag ba

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kennedy and john kennedy and ted kennedy was enormous. his ability to relate the message of robert f. kennedy to today was powerful and deep, and his message today is something that i think reflects to the american people his ability to understand what robert f. kennedy was trying to signal to our country. i give you my friend, the great congressman from the state of florida, marco rubio. [ applause ] >> thank you. and i'm honored to be here. a personal story, my parents arrived in this country in 1956. they did not become citizens until 1976. but my mother tells me she was an american well before she was a citizen. i remember one day asking her, when did you know you were an american? she said she knew she was an american in november of 1963 when she wept at the loss of a young president and she realized at that moment that she had been fully americanized and shared the dreams and hopes of a new era that inspired people that were registered to vote and those that were not, that inspired people that were americans and that were not. and so

he later became the aa for senator ted kennedy when he was majority whip and he was a true believer in the kennedys and he gave me my first job coming back from the peace corps. and the job was not exactly what i wanted, but it was a good job for a while. i would work in the office during the daytime and then i'd be a capital cop starting at 3:00 every day. so i was doing two jobs and i can tell you, i can almost write a book about how much i learned as a cop here. i learned a lot. in fact, i learned a lot about the guys who live in the country who vote conservative and are very patriotic but they may not agree with a lot of people in this room, but they have a point of view and one of the old cops said to me one time "you know why the little man love this is country? it's because there's always god." i learned a lot from those guys. one thing i learned about the capital police and from those guys who worked here, like the superintendent who cleans up the places and fixes the electricity in the middle of the night was there was one democrat, one senator who always made a point of sayin

. >> senator, at about quarter to 3:00 in the morning, you had a visitor, senator ted kennedy. what did you two talk about? senator mccarthy: well, we didn't talk about anything very important. i don't think people do at 3:00 in the morning. it was kind of a good will mission. i don't know whether it was meant to come to anything particular, but it was -- it was a courtesy call and i appreciated very much the effort that senator kennedy made, ted kennedy, in coming out. it's a long flight from washington in the middle of the night, and he flew back again the same night, simply to say that that -- what was announced this morning was going to be announced, but there was no offer of any deal from him to me, and certainly no response on my part, except what i said here that i don't intend to make any deals. i don't really have the power to make any deals, but i intend to pursue the course of which i've committed myself and stand by the people who are backing me. >> who initiated that meeting? senator mccarthy: i don't know who initiated it, really. i didn't. >> senator, i noticed t

undermining him and just respecting him and felt that bobby kennedy was different from jack kennedy or ted kennedy. what all went into that these feelings happen before i worked for the president. i can't comment on that. i don't know. but it was a very strange relationship. it was early april, after the president announced he was not going to run for reelection. we had bobby kennedy down at the white house. the president met with him in the cabinet room. stern, the president, lecturing bobby kennedy, on to not doing things that are going to interrupt the peace settlement. then, the two people did not have the warmest of relationships. did nothat settlement take place in 1968. >> right. >> take us back. the speech is over, you were in the white house. what was lady bird johnson thing to president johnson? what were the reactions? the president went into the --l office and perceived received and made phone calls. the governor of new york. president johnson had a warm relationship with governor rockefeller. lady bird johnson was absolutely elated. that he shouldn't run for quite a wild. she and her

>> next on american dynasties, the kennedys. >> from my dad, the overwhelming burden to succeed was crushing. >> ted >> he took a radically wrong turn. >> rescue units marshalled all resources. >> they called me to say that john kennedy's plane is missing. >> how much tragedy, how much death can one family take? >>> one of the most powerful men on earth holds a position that has existed for nearly 2000 years. as the world changes and faith evolves, his authority remains. what began with one apostle has become 1.2 billion followers under one man. he is the head of the catholic church, the pope. and this is his path to power.

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he worked for senator ted kenny when he was majority whip. he believed in the kennedys, he dpawf me my first job back from the peace corps, i worked in the office and then i would be a capitol cop in the afternoon, i was doing two jobs, i can almost write a book on how much i learned as a cop here, i learned about the guys in the country who vote conservative, they may not agree with everyone in this room but they love their country, i learned a lot from the police, like the superintendent. there was one democrat, one senator who always made a point of saying hello and greeting all of the capitol police in the morning, he said hello as equals, that told me so much about him. he was well-known for looking out for those in the country that had gotten bad treatment from the police, he would have been sympathetic to the black lives movement but he also believed in good law enforcement, segregationists or mobsters or others that broke the law, that is why the building is named the robert f kennedy building. he believed in law enforcement. he was neither a snob nor a phone yu

that onen was ousted, really hurt liberals but i believe it was the great ted kennedy who said, thatcrazy, i murdered a woman. chappaquiddick, in theaters now. jokeshave a a lot of i hadcabinet members but to scrap all of those because everyone has been fired. are going through cabinet members quicker than starbucks throws out black people. don't worry, they are having an afternoon. we just needed an afternoon. mitch mcconnell's interior tonight. he had a prior -- mitch mcconnell is not here tonight. he had a prior engagement. he is finally getting his neck circumcised. paul ryan also couldn't make it. he has already been circumcised. unfortunately, while they were down there they also took his * * . by the way paul, great acting in that video. republicans are easy to make fun of. it is like shooting fish in a chris christie. i also want to make fun of democrats. democrats are harder to make fun of because you guys don't do anything. [laughter] might flip the house and senate this november but you guys always find a way to mess it up. you are somehow going to lose by 12 points to a g

been diagnosed with stanley cup four brain cancer and the same cancer that felled beau biden and ted kennedywhat is striking is first of all, john mccain came into public life in a lot of ways in a major way for faith of my fathers. the book about the connection, the connective tissue of the military and how he learned -- this book cowritten and as his others, a reflection on no matter what you think of john mccain's politics, left or right or center, an amazing life. a tremendously eventful and tremendously meaningful life and his criticism of donald trump will draw the headlines. but i do think if you look at the sweep of john mccain's life from the naval academy to being a prisoner of war, to the house, to the senate, to running for president, to being the nominee, now to this, it is a remarkable journey. >> let me read another excerpt where he talks about his cancer diagnosis and how he views his obligation to voters. so this is what he writes. this is my last term. if i hadn't admitted that to myself before the summer, a stage four cancer diagnosis acts as ungentle persuasion. i've free

now the story about what happens the night ted kennedy drove off a bridge. my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day. it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. there are not a lot of senators charged with manslaughter that go on to be president. >> what do we do to help the senator? >> we tell the truth. or at least our version of it. steve: well, the true story of how one accident ultimately changed the course of presidential politics hits the big screen tomorrow. ainsley: senior vice president of marketing michael tammero is behind the scenes look at chappaquiddick. i hear it is fantastic. >> fantastic, guys. you think you know this story. i recently caught up with the cast that probably told me about one of the biggest coverups of the 20th century. let's take a look. >> everybody, raise your glasses to the senator. >> it's ted kennedy in the white house in '72. [cheers] [screams] >> to this day chappaquiddick rerains one of th

for you to ask when you are making this thing that michelle wolf did personal when she attacked ted kennedyortion and the only person we are focussing on is sarah huckabee sanders. part of the reason we are talking about this is because people who have gotten skewered, have gotten called third ranked journalists and hillary clinton flunkies and failed "new york times" and came out in defense of sarah huckabee sanders because journalist whose have been attacked by this administration and trump supporters have justified the attacks came in defense of sarah huckabee sanders, something you are unwilling to do for people like elizabeth warren and rosy o'donnell. and people like megyn kelly. >> hold on. >> i wish the president hadn't said that m.that. welcome to the snow flake club. how does it feel? >> i don't know what to say. when you don't have an argument you go to personal attacks. >> instead of talking about the facts. you are being on tv, being a hypocrit because you have the same outrage as you do for a one night comedian. i thought both were awful. i can't stand either. i don't like the

he had been a ted kennedy supporter and the kennedy people were so as opposed to us, he got that bookhanded it to. >> casey. >> and casey did it to baker. >> you write in the bok that president carter thought that the fact that they fill muched that book from his staff, gave it to reagan's debate prep people had an influence in who won the debate. >> obviously, we had high inflation iran and problems. the thing is this. all the polls showed before the debate, that we were ahead. after the debate, we dropped precipitously. >> i know. >> and interestingly, even after the debate, we still were even going in the last weekend when carter decided to come back and take one last look at iran and it caused a whole thing. but there's no question, they knew all of our attacks. when he said there you go again. >> was it a dirty trick? >> of course it was. baker indicates it was. >> i love reporting. stu, you're a really good write writer. you're smart. you are a very fluent writer. a hell of a book with all the stuff in it. a lot of good detective work. president cart he, the white house years, g

an expert's eye to science policy, authoring a law protecting people's genetic information and ted kennedyled it, and i quote, the first civil rights legislation of the 21st century. and she was the heart beat of the american worker. i will always remember our fight against the transpacific partnership agreement and when the fast track bill came to the floor in 2015, louise and i were a team. we ran the war room for her -- from her capitol hill office not very far from here and she said to me, i'll bring the bagels and cream cheese, you bring the list. and when she walked into her office, which was crammed with members and with staff on the phones, making phone calls, and she looked at us and she said, nd i quote, you all look smarter than a tree full of owls. [laughter] most recently, we sat side-by-side in my office every week in trade meetings, talking about the nafta renegotiation. she sat on my living room couch and all those public policy dinners, week after week, and she said so me -- said to me, can i bring bob along? i said, louise, bob can come without you. she sat in the same pl