WASHINGTON (AP) — “Uncle Ted” Stevens, an old-style Senate giant and the chamber’s longest-serving Republican, delivered his swan song address and yielded the floor for the final time Thursday. He was saluted by his colleagues as a staunch friend and teacher. “My mission in life is not completed,” Stevens said in his farewell speech on the Senate floor, as perhaps a quarter of the chamber’s 100 members gathered to hear him and the gallery filled with his friends and family.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Stevens gives last Senate speech, staffers weep
By The Associated Press
November 20, 2008