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FROM THE SENATE THAT WE SEE TODAY ON C SPAN? >> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, EVERY SENATOR WAS KNOWN. I GO OVER THERE NOW AT THE GALLERY AND LOOK OVER THE EDGE,...
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I DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THE NAMES. SO I THINK THAT INDIVIDUAL SENATORS HAD A MORE PROMINENT PLACE IN THE LIFE OF THE SENATE THAN THEY DO TODAY. I ALSO...
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CAME TO
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THE SENATE,
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THERE WAS A SENSE OF PARTY DISCIPLINE THAT I
00:02:40
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THINK WAS STRONGER THAN IT IS TODAY. BUT HAVING SAID THAT, I ALSO THINK THE COLLEGIALITY OF THE SENATE HAS DIMINISHED IN THE YEARS SINCE BOB DOLE AND...
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UNTO HIMSELF. HE WAS A VERY DETERMINED MAN. HE WAS SKILLFUL IN KNOWING WHAT THE INTERESTS AND THE WISHES OF SENATORS WERE, AND HE COULD BE TALKING TO...
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YOUR STATE THAT YOU WERE INTERESTED IN AND SLIDE FROM THAT INTO THE VOTE THAT WAS COMING UP. HE SAYS, I SURE HOPE YOU'RE GOING TO BE WITH ME ON THIS...
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WAS PRESIDENT DURING THOSE
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FIRST EIGHT YEARS THAT I SERVED IN THE SENATE, AND THEY REALLY RAN THE DOMESTIC SIDE OF AMERICAN POLICY DURING THE EISENHOWER YEARS. I DON'T KNOW THAT...
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WAR. >> UH-HUH. >> DID THAT
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MAKE IT
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EASIER TO ESTABLISH A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH DOLE? AND HOW LONG DID THAT TAKE? I MEAN, TO
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WHAT EXTENT DID HIS
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REPUTATION EARLY ON IN THE SENATE AS A GUNSLINGER, YOU KNOW, THE SHERIFF OF THE SENATE, IS THAT SOMETHING YOU HAD TO GET OVER? >> HE CAME TO THE...
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SOME YEARS
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AFTER I WAS THERE, AND AT THAT TIME, BOB, BLESS HIS HEART, WAS A PRETTY PARTISAN TOUGH GUY ON THE RHETORIC. AND HE WAS
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PRETTY PARTISAN. IT'S INTERESTING THAT HE CAME FROM A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY. HIS MOTHER AND FATHER WERE DEMOCRATS, MY MOTHER AND FATHER WERE REPUBLICANS,...
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WORLD. THERE ARE NO HUNGRY PEOPLE IN AMERICA. I HAD RUN THE FOOD
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FOR PEACE PROGRAM FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY, SO I KNEW ABOUT HUNGER IN THE WORLD. AFRICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, PARTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. I KNEW ABOUT...
00:13:38
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A BUDGET-BALANCING TRADITIONALIST, HOW DID HE RECONCILE THOSE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT? >> WELL, BOB DOLE IS A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT MAN AND A MAN OF GREAT...
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GAINED IF YOU COULD PRODUCE HEALTHY KIDS THAT GO OUT INTO LIFE BETTER EDUCATED, MORE VIGOROUS, BETTER ABLE TO EARN MORE MONEY AND THEREFORE PAY MORE...
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AND THEY
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TAKE US INTO A MIGRANT LABOR CAMP, PEOPLE ARE OUT PICKING BERRIES AND DOING OTHER THINGS IN THE FIELDS, THOUSANDS OF THEM. AND THEN THEY GO BACK TO...
00:18:07
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ME AFTER WE LEFT THIS
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GARAGE. I SAID, GOSH, ALAN, ISN'T IT TERRIBLE THAT POOR WOMAN LIVING THERE WITH TEN LITTLE KIDS? AND HE SAID, WELL, I NOTICED SHE'S GOT A TELEVISION IN...
00:19:31
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CORPORATIONS THAT YOU HAVE IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
00:19:36
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WHAT YOU HAVE ARE LITTLE INDEPENDENT MERCHANTS UP AND DOWN MAIN STREET, FARMERS TOILING OUT IN THE FIELDS AND SO ON, SO THERE IS ALWAYS A CERTAIN AMOUNT...
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HE SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE TODAY. THEY LEFT HIM ON
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THE BATTLEFIELD FOR A WHILE THINKING IT WAS NOT WORTH BRINGING HIM BACK. SO THE REST OF US CAME BACK FROM THE WAR, ENROLLED IN COLLEGES AND SO ON. BOB...
00:22:28
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HUBERT WAS BORN IN SOUTH DAKOTA, GREW UP FIRST IN DOVER, SOUTH
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DAKOTA, AND HE STILL HAD THE HUMPHREY DRUG IN HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA. HE LEFT WHEN HIS FATHER CONVINCED HIM THAT A DEMOCRAT COULDN'T BE ELECTED TO ANYTHING...
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HUBERT IF HE WERE GOING TO RUN AGAIN IN' '72, AND HE SAID, NO WAY. I'VE BEEN OVER THAT TRAIL
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ONE TOO MANY TIMES. MUSKIE TAUKDS TO HIM ANDLKED TO HIM AND GOT THE SAME ANSWER. BUT ONCE HE HEARD THE FIREBELLS AND GOT IT GOING AGAIN, HE WAS RIGHT...
00:24:40
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THEY CAST HIM ASIDE BEFORE WATERGREAT BROKEWATER WATERGATE BROKE. >> THEY DID. AND YET DON'T THEY SEEM TO HAVE THIS KIND OF REVERENTIAL RELATIONSHIP
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RIGHT TO THE END OF HIS LIFE. >> I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THAT. I THOUGHT THEY WERE SO DIFFERENT, REALLY. >> HOW SO? >> IT ALWAYS
00:25:08
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SEEMED TO ME THAT BOB DOLE WAS A STRAIGHT SHOOTER THAT YOU COULD TRUST HIS
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WORD. NIXON WAS MORE OF A DEVIOUS
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PERSON. ALSO, I THINK THAT NIXON HAD
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A PARANOID STREAK THAT IS ABSENT IN BOB, BUT I WAS PUZZLED THAT THAT ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION FOR NIXON SEEMED TO CONTINUE TO THE END. I WENT TO NIXON'S...
00:26:16
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SAID YOU WOULD KEEP PAINTING FOREVER. >> THAT'S RIGHT. I WENT TO PAT NIXON'S FUNERAL, AND HE MADE A BIG THING OF THAT IN A PLEASANT SORT OF WAY. WERE...
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I THOUGHT THAT WAS A NICE -- >> WHY WAS IT, SENATOR,
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I THOUGHT WHEN PRESIDENT FORD
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DIED, AND WE SEE IT NOT ONLY WHEN ELDER STATESMEN PASS AWAY, BUT WHEN THEY BECOME ELDER STATESMEN, WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS SYSTEM WHERE ONLY WHEN YOU'RE...
00:27:09
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BIG AS YOU CAN BE AND THE PUBLIC RESPONDS? ISN'T THAT FRUSTRATING IN SOME WAYS? WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF YOU COULD DO IT WHILE YOU'RE IN OFFICE? >> I...
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HAD VOTED FOR PRESIDENT FORD IN 1976. MAYBE EVERYBODY WAS SHOCKED, I DON'T KNOW. >> I WASN'T. THE FAMILY, BY THE WAY, WERE TOUCHED. >> WERE THEY?...
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. >> YOU WERE INVITED VERY EARLY IN THE
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FORD PRESIDENCY TO, I THINK, A STAG DINNER IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >>
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I WAS. >> AND AS THE STORY HAS BEEN TOLD TO ME, YOU EXPRESSED SOME SURPRISE THAT YOU HAD NOT
00:28:24
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BEEN INVITED DURING THE JOHNSON OR NIXON PRESIDENCIES, AND PRESIDENT FORD SAID, I KNOW, GEORGE, THAT'S
00:28:32
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WHY I INVITED YOU. >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. HE SEATED ME NEXT TO HIM. HE HAD THE KING ON ONE SIDE AND
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I
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WAS ON THE OTHER. FULLBRIGHT WAS THERE. AND IN THE DINNER, I SAID, MR. PRESIDENT, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU KNOW THIS, BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN INVITED TO...
00:28:54
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IN VIETNAM. HE SAYS, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE HERE. SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS NICE. >> TELL ME ABOUT THE WICK PROGRAM. >> THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST PROGRAMS THE FEDERAL...
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OF FIVE YEARS. YOU CAN'T TALK TO A
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PERSON WHO HAS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT PROGRAM WHO DOESN'T TELL YOU THIS THING IS JUST WONDERFUL, WHAT IT'S DOING TO TRANSFORM LIVES AND TO BRING...
00:31:03
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ALL THE TIME. YEAH, I THINK IT COULD HAPPEN. I'M
00:31:07
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JUST TRYING TO THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE. IT PROBABLY COULD HAPPEN AGAIN. >> IS IT SAFE TO SAY THAT THE BULK OF THE SENATE'S WORK HAPPENS OFF THE FLOOR?...
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SIGNIFICANT THAN IT IS TODAY? >> I THOUGHT SO. ALTHOUGH I'VE SEEN THAT FLOOR EMPTY A LOT OF
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TIMES WITH A SINGLE SENATOR RAVING AWAY. >> WITHOUT NAMING NAMES, ARE THERE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE
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CAPABLE OF UPSETTING THE SENATE? >> YES, THERE WERE. BUT THERE WERE ALSO SOME WHO WERE SO
00:31:58
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ELOQUENT, YOU WONDERED WHY THERE WEREN'T MORE PEOPLE LISTENING. LIKE WAYNE MORRIS. WAYNE MORRIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST ARTICULATE,
00:32:08
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POWERFUL, EX TEMP EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKERS EVER. AND I'M TOLD BY STAFF THAT HAVE THE DUPLICATIONS AND THE DANGLING PARTICIPLES, THEY COULDN'T FIND...
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SYSTEM, THE SENATE SEEMS TO BE A MUCH MORE HEIRARCHICAL PLACE THAN
00:34:58
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IT IS TODAY. WHAT WERE THE PROS AND
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CONS OF THAT? >> I SUPPOSE THE PROS IS THAT YOU HAD A PRETTY CLEAR MAP
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OF WHO YOU HAD TO SEE TO GET SOMETHING DONE. MAYBE THE LINES OF AUTHORITY WERE A LITTLE CLEARER THAN THEY ARE NOW. THE MINUSES
00:35:26
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OF THAT ARE THAT YOU COULDN'T GET AROUND THOSE PEOPLE IF THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SEE A BILL MOVE TO THE FLOOR. THEY HAD WAYS OF TRAPPING THAT MEASURE SO...
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THEY SEE THE SENATE
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ON CSPAN, AND THEY'RE PERPLEXED, IF NOT INFURIATED BY WHAT SEEMS TO BE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. I MEAN, HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE WAY THE SENATE OPERATES?...
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DONE IN COMMITTEES, THAT YOU CAN'T WRITE A BILL ON THE SENATE FLOOR, YOU CAN'T CONDUCT A HEARING ON THE SENATE FLOOR, SO THAT BILLS ARE LARGELY SHAPED...
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SHOULDN'T EXPECT TO SEE A LOT OF PRODUCTIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE EFFORT MOVING FORWARD ON THE FLOOR OF EITHER THE HOUSE OR THE SENATE. AND THAT THE FACT...
00:38:19
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DIFFICULT, I THINK. AND SO YOU NEED BIGGER
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STAFFS AND WELL-TRAINED STAFF. I DON'T THINK THAT'S AN UNFAVORABLE DEVELOPMENT. >> HOW ABOUT FUNDRAISING? THAT CLEARLY IS SOMETHING THAT IS -- >>...
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CAMPAIGN AND THAT THEY GIVE AN AVERAGE OF
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TWO OUT OF EVERY SEVEN DAYS TO RAISING FUNDS. I DON'T THINK THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION. AND SENATORS WHO DISLIKED THAT AS MUCH AS I DID REALLY ARE FRUSTRATED...
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MONEY FOR THIS BRIDGE, OR I WANT MY KID IN WEST POINT. I NEVER HAD THAT HAPPEN. >> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT VIETNAM AND IN
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THOSE YEARS WHEN DOLE WAS JUST NEWLY ARRIVED IN THE SENATE AND YOU WERE AN EQUIVALENT NATIONAL FIGURE EVEN BEFORE THE '72 CAMPAIGN, AND THERE WERE ...
00:42:33
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FROM -- GOD, AMENDMENTS FROM THE WAR, DOLE WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE. DID YOU EVER DISCUSS THOSE? WAS YOUR RELATIONSHIP SUCH THAT YOU COULD TALK ABOUT THOSE...
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THERE WERE ELOQUENT ARGUMENTS MADE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE, BUT TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY AND KNOWLEDGE, I DON'T THINK BOB AND I EVER TALKED ABOUT...
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AND IF YOU'RE HAPPY WITH YOUR LIFE IT'S EASIER TO BE IMAGINE NAMOUS IN OTHER THINGS. I THINK SHE ADDED TO HIS HAPPINESS. I
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DIDN'T KNOW HIS FIRST WIFE BUT I KNOW ELIZABETH AND SHE'S A REMARKABLE PERSON. >> THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN PARTICULARLY MID-'70 DOES AND THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL...
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THAT IMAGE WASN'T THE SAME, THAT IT TOOK A WHILE FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF DOLE. BUT I TAKE IT AMONG HIS COLLEAGUES, YOU ALWAYS HAD SEEN...
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A HUMORIST AND BE ENTIRELY MEAN. >> YEAH. HE LIKES TO PARTICULARLY POKE FUN AT POM POSTY. >> YES, HE DID. >> THAT'S A POPULIST -- >> YES, HE DOES....
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CAMPAIGN WHEN HE WAS
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TAKING
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SOME HEAT, HUB ERT HUMPHREY WENT TO
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HIM, IT WAS THAT WEEK
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AND SAID, BOB, I KNOW WHERE YOU
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ARE, I'VE BEEN THERE. DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THEM. FORGET
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THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SCAPEGOATING. YOU DID WHAT THEY WANTED YOU TO DO. IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARILY GENERAL GENEROUS KIND OF THING. >> HUMPHREY LIKED TO...
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WON A LANDSLIDE VICTORY HE WOULD BE JUBILANT. BUT THE TAPES THAT CAME OUT, SHOCKED ME. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I KIND
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OF LAUGHED AT THEM. IN ONE PARAGRAPH HE CALLED ME A CLOWN, A SON OF A
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PITCH TALKING TO KISSINGER AND ROCKEFELLER. THIS IS ON ELECTION NIGHT. AND HE SAYS, AND THAT CONCESSION SPEECH, DIDN'T YOU THINK THAT WAS AWFUL? WELL,...
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ON, HE NEVER WROTE A BOOK OR AN ARTICLE OR ANYTHING WITHOUT SENDING IT TO ME
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AND SENDING A LETTER TO ME. HE HAD A STRANGE WAY OF WRITING LONGHAND LETTERS. HE WOULD START UP HERE LIKE THIS. AND THEY JUST KEPT GETTING SHORTER....
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BECAME A MORE ADMIRABLE HUMAN BEING. I ALWAYS THOUGHT BOB WAS A PERSON OF
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HIGH INTEGRITY. AND A KEEN INTELLECT. WHAT I HAVE SEEN IN THE MORE RECENT YEARS AND THIS IS OVER A CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME, IS THAT A PROCESS THAT...
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PHYSICALLY. AND BUT I THINK JUST HIS EXPERIENCE WITH OTHER HUMAN
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BEINGS, HIS DISCOVERY, THAT PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH HIM ON POLITICS DON'T NECESSARILY PRESENT A THREAT OR A REASON FOR ANIMOSITY, THAT INSTEAD IT'S...
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SO. CANDIDATE AND NOMINEE IN FACT FOR THE PRESIDENCY. HE WAS THE MAJORITY
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LEADER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE. AND IN ALL OF THOSE ROLES, HE MANIFESTED THE QUALITIES OF A STRONG AND EFFECTIVE LEADER. I THINK THAT'S THE WAY...
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GOLDWATER. WHAT CAN YOU TELL A JUNIOR SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? HE SAYS, DON'T GET FATIGUED. FATIGUE IS THE BIG ENEMY IN A ...
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SAID THAT'S WHY I WENT IN TO FLORIDA SHORTLY BEFORE THE ELECTION AND CAME OUT AGAINST SOCIAL SECURITY. THAT'S SMART, ESPECIALLY IN FLORIDA WHERE...
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TURN THIS DOWN, BUT HE WAS OPPOSED BY SOME OF THE POLITICAL -- >> DIDN'T HE OPPOSE HIM? >> HOW MUCH -- HE
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WAS A WONDERFUL GUY. >> I WISH WE WOULD
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HAVE PICKED HIM. >> LISTEN, I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH. IT'S SO GOOD OF YOU TO DO THIS. >> NICE TO SEE YOU. >> NO, IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU. >> 220 YEARS...
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PHILADELPHIA. COMING UP ON AMERICAN HISTORY
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TELEVISION, IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE LIFE OF BEN
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FRANKLIN. FIRST GORDON WOOD ON HIS BOOK
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THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN

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