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McCullough himself was so devoted to empathizing with the subject of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman that he ran the exact the same route President Truman ran through the Capitol upon being informed of the death of Theodore Roosevelt—even down to the time...
Friday, at a memorial service in front of the Minnesota state capitol, a preacher told the crowd, “We cannot park the green bus.” If it were a practical choice, Wellstone probably would have taken the bus up to northern Minnesota for the funeral he was scheduled to attend. He was known to hate and fear flying in those small planes...
...genuinely admired. Fellow Minnesotan and former Vice President Walter Mondale congratulated Wellstone on the upset but warned that the aggressiveness Wellstone had shown on the campaign trail (he starred in a series of Roger & Me-inspired ads in which he stalked his opponent) might not go over well on Capitol Hill. "Remember," said Mondale, "you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything...
...Paul wasn't scared of a fight, but he also wasn't scared of a friend," says conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. After heated debates with John McCain on the Senate floor, Wellstone, a former college wrestler who still holds the Capitol Police gym record for pushups and pull-ups, would grab McCain in the cloakroom in a mock wrestling hold. And when one of his amendments was inevitably defeated by a lopsided vote, Wellstone would walk over to the opposing Senator who had defeated him, slap him on the back and joke, "You were lucky this time...
...Senator Paul Wellstone, who died Friday when his campaign plane crashed, had a lot of courage to match all that enthusiasm. Most politicians and reporters stress how liberal he was. But even if he had been Jesse Helms' and Strom Thurmond's ideological buddy on Capitol Hill, Wellstone would have had something special that set him apart from most of his colleagues. Wellstone was unapologetic about his convictions. He did not change his views based on polls or focus groups. Throughout the '90s, as the Senate shifted to Republican control, and Democrats moved further to the center, Wellstone passionately held...