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  1. “We're all in this together, and that's why this rabbi Skorka, when I asked him who Bergolio, Pope Francis' favorite character was, he didn't even think about it. He said Abraham. He said, because Abraham wandered, always trying to develop a relationship with God, but he wandered around trying to learn. And we're all wanderers, right? I mean, the name of the book is Pilgrimage, but we're all pilgrims because, as you say, we're all going to leave here in a matter of years. So he's a pilgrim. And, you know, he's striving to try to do a better job with other human beings, but also his relationship with God.”

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  2. “So he's by no means perfect, but he is reaching out to the margins and he's challenging you whether you're a Democrat or an independent or a Republican, whether you think you're progressive or a conservative Catholic or whether you're a Jew or a Muslim or an atheist. I think that's why people respond to him. Because I get great leadership, whether they're political or religious, ask us to get beyond ourselves. They don't ask us to go out to the store and buy more crap. They ask us to, how are we going to make the world a better place? And they aspire us to, you know, go into our soul and to try to make connection with our neighbors, not build walls and isolate us, right? And those were great leaders do. And I think that's what he's doing. He's saying whether you're, again, Catholic or a Christian or a Jew or atheist.”

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  3. “I mean, I talked to this rabbi who told me that he'd met Bergoglio in the slums of Argentina and then he saw him multiple times and one time he was washing people's feet. And I said, oh, you mean on holy Thursday, you know, the celebration recreating what Jesus did. He said, no, no, this was just during the week. He did this all the time. He goes, you know, you're surprised because you don't know, but those of us that know him here in Buenos Aires, we know who he is. So, yeah, I'm convinced that he's the real deal. I think, you know, look, he's a sinner just like the rest of us. He's not perfect. He, you know, he's definitely had problems in the way he managed people.”

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  4. “Going on out there, the way he treats of Jews, the way he treats prostitutes, the way he treats people on the fringes, which is what the Jesuits always, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the guy who started the Jesuit, said, go out to the frontier and work with the poor and the powerless. And this is what he's done. When he goes to Lampedusa to interact with the refugees there as his first visit as Pope, he's sending a message to all of us. So I think it's going to be hard to backtrack on that is the short answer.”

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  5. “I'm asking I would guess, you know, given the collection, the College of Cardinals, what I had thought they would have put a pastorial guy in there who is this man who's a Jesuit, you know, five years ago, I think I would have gotten pretty good odds on that. So I think the Holy Spirit, God works in a mysterious ways. And it's not just a throwaway line. I think do I think he's appointing guys like Superchair in Chicago who are more pastoral in their approach? Yes. Will he appoint more of them? Yes. Will they choose someone like Francis? Who knows? Do I think he's made changes both small and symbolic but also important? Yes. I have a friend who is a Catholic priest who drove around a pretty nice car for a while and he changed it a couple of years ago. And I said, hey, what happened? And he said, Francis, you know, so you can say, well, one priest downgrading his car doesn't make that much of a difference, but you've got all these little ripples of hope.”

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  6. “Try to raise a lot more money and go that route. But he doesn't really subscribe to these ideologies because they come and they go. What he's talking about is, I think, a longer window on how you move people's hearts and get them to change their behavior. And that's his relationship with God.”

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  7. “Oh, yeah, yeah. They're friendly. They're definitely friendly. And there's a number of stories in this book I wrote, you know, from Jews and from atheists about their relationship with the Pope because he's reaching out. And, you know, should I be doing that type of work or do I stay engaged in the political arena?”

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  8. “And you know, we talk all the time about amassing political power, and he's saying that the real power comes in solidarity with the poor. And then you look around likewenza wasn't in charge of, you know, communist Poland. You look at Martin Luther King wasn't exactly U.S. senator. Rosa Parks, you know, is not a billionaire. So you look at where power comes from, and he's a challenge. He's a great teacher in that regard, and the sense of humility and the sense of mercy and the outreach he does with Jews. And I asked this rabbi down there, Scorko, who was a good friend of his who wrote the introduction to his autobiography. Rabbi Skorko speaks English, goes, how many cardinals around the world have a Jew write the introduction to his autobiography? None, he says. None. He goes, I'm the only one ever. And my guy's Pope.”

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  9. “Yeah, I mean, I'm totally confused right now as to, you know, where I'm going to go. I mean, I enjoy my work at Save the Children. I run C4, the Save the Children Action Network, and we're involved in political races on early childhood education and saving babies and mothers' lives around the world. So we're in the political arena in that regard. But he talks about, you know, listening to poor people, staying engaged with poor people, about not building big non-governmental organizations. Exactly what, you know, I was always trained to you want to have a bigger budget. You want to have more money. You want to drive efficiencies. You want a five-year plan. And Pope Francis says, stay close to the poor. Stay small organization. Listen to the poor. Just don't provide services for them. And he says, don't trust the NGOs.”

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  10. “Yeah, it's a 2,000-year-old institution, and he's running a government as well as being a religious leader, right? And I think what you'll see though when he had this commission set up to study whether women could become deacons, I think that's going to make a difference because I'm hopeful that women will become deacons. And when they start preaching in Catholic churches, when they start performing a lot of the services that priests can do, I think that will change things. But you're right. He's running a pretty conservative 2,000-year-old institution that is worldwide. So from an American lens, we want to put them in the box of progressive or conservative, or does he lean Democrat or Republican? Or is he an independent? And he's representing Africa, Central South America, the whole world. But these little seeds that he plants, and when he's riding around in a fiat and when he gets rid of some of the fancy stuff that Benedict had around, when he gives away the summer palace that the Pope has in the mountains of Italy and turns it into a museum so everyone can go there, wow.”

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  11. “So, like Bernadine, and that great story you just told, I mean, he's in coach. And he is going public transportation. So when he gets in that fiat. When he's inviting homeless people over for his birthday party, he's sending a message when he's giving his first class ticket up to a woman, an older lady, so he can sit and coach flying all the way across the country or the ocean. He's sent in a message and that's why he's a great teacher.”

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  12. “And if you're the cardinal of Buenos Aires and the Catholic Church is really aligned with the government until a few years ago, you had to be Catholic in order to be elected president of Argentina. It was a constitutional amendment. So the Catholic cardinal is a big deal in Argentina. All chauffeur driven around, not Pope Francis when he was cardinal. Bus and train, okay, and our metro system. And that's consistent with him that he would walk through these muddy streets and get his shoes muddy. And they, you know, to a person told me stories like that. Somebody else told me that when he went over to the last voting for the Pope, which he got elected pope, he had a first class ticket. Somebody bought it for him. And that's a long fight from Bonas Aires to Rome. And he went down back of the plane, found an old woman, put her in his seat, and then he sat in coach as a 75, 76-year-old man.”

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  13. “Yes. And that's what Pope Francis, I think, is. He's that pastoral approach that you're talking about, David. And I got to tell you, the number of folks I talk to in the via, the really poor sections of Buenos Aires where Pope Francis would go on his days off and during official duty and hang out who told me that he took public transportation buses there”

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  14. “A father who lost his daughter in the Jewish community center bombing there in 94, who told me all these stories about Bergoglio, Cardinal Bergoglio. So it's not just Catholics. I mean, this guy reaches beyond Catholics. He has real connections with Jews. It's not this interface stuff for one day a year. These are real personal connections.”

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  15. “And then a kind of a different rise back to power always interests me, you know, how he became the first Jesuit ever elected pope. And the Jesuits, as you may know, it's an order of Catholic priests take a vow to make sure that if they feel one of their brother Jesuits is trying to get a better job, they're supposed to report them. So there's this sense of humility built into the Jesuit order. And somehow this guy becomes bishop, then cardinal, then Pope. How did that happen? And why does he get on his knees and wash a Muslim girl's feet when the Catholic churches always said that priests are only supposed to wash the feet of other male priests, obviously? Something's going on here. So I wanted to dig in and not talk to the big shots in Argentina or in Rome about them, but the people he knew and liked them and didn't like them and Buenos Aires and across Argentina, you know, priests, nuns, but grieving parents, I talked to, you know, rabbis.”

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  16. “Thank you very much, David. For people of all ages, right? I mean, you know, it's just there was a disconnect there. And I think this guy I wanted to dig in and figure out whether, as I said, these were PR stunts or whether this guy was the real deal. And, you know, the question of how he had arise to power and then a fall.”

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  17. “To help each other. Not only on a personal basis, but also a relationship to God. So, anyways, when Pope Francis came out on that balcony and asked people to bless him before he blessed them, wow, that's a sign of humility. Next day, paying his hotel bill. A couple weeks later, getting on his knees at a juvenile facility and washing and kissing the feet of juvenile delinquents. And as we just spoke about, you know, I worked with Juvenile Delinquents in Baltimore. I wouldn't today get on my knees and wash and kiss their feet in that type of facility. I mean, that takes guts. And he's a 76-year-old man on his knees, right? And when he goes on his first trip as Pope to Lampedusa to see the refugees, these are all gestures that kind of clearly caught my attention and made me wonder, are these publicity stunts in order to garner positive PR for the church, or is this guy the real deal? And I wanted to get out of my Catholic funk, if you will. And you wouldn't be alone in that.”

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  18. “Yeah, I think that's a great way of putting it, actually. It's beautiful. So I think, you know, for me, the nuns and priests that I know, not only in Illinois, but all around the country and the work I've done at Save the Children bumping into nuns and priests and some of the poorest places in this country working away was so disconnected from what was happening with the hierarchy, the sexual abuse scandals, the scandals around the banking industry or the Vatican Bank comments about Islam, treatment of women, you know, and what people wear and what the Pope was wearing and his red shoes just had nothing to do with my interpretation of what Christ was and what the nuns and priests that I knew around the globe were doing. And it's so distant from the other great religions, you know, Jews calling Takunalum, you know, repairing the world. Muslims, Islam, you know, these are all concepts that the great religions have, which is trying to...”

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  19. “But she does great work at Cure, by the way. I have a buddy of mine who's on your board now, Sky Copeland from Maryland. Yeah.”

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  20. “John's great. I mean, he's got everybody I talk to in Chicago loves him. Yeah. And he's not only had an impact in Illinois, but all around the country because they're disseminating the good work they're doing in Illinois to Maryland, California, all across the country. Yeah. So it's powerful.”

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  21. “He was the mayor. Yes, of course, we're talking politics. He was the mayor of Santa Monica and does a lot today on the homeless issue for veterans and the VA's veterans administration's lack of work on housing and health services to veterans in LA County and that part of California is just that's a crime as well. And he's calling on President-elect Trump and that administration to really help build that out and do it quickly, which they should have done over the last really 40 years.”

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  22. “He knew Riko, and he loved Chicago too. But he's done so much work with Bono on the whole AIDS in Africa, debt relief work over there. Worked with President George W. Bush on PEPFAR and trying to create economic opportunities, but also deal with some of the social problems that are going on across Africa. So no, we never had those conversations. And the mayor of the mayor of the may”

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  23. “Yeah, no, they don't. I mean, and my brother Bobby, who you didn't mention there, who I know you know, who was a reporter at the show.”

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  24. “Right. To overwhelmed by the Shrivers? Tim. Well, the Shrivers are overwhelming, I will say that. I have been overwhelmed.”

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  25. “Tom Cole, I think he's great. I went to the Republican convention, did a Facebook live interview with him. He came to our stand. He's really good. And he understands the issue, and he's a strong supporter of it. But, you know, we got to have more than just one member of, I mean, and there are other Republicans who are good on this issue. But when you lay out the entitlements and you lay out defense spending and you lay out tax cut, what gets squeezed are the vulnerable and the perilous, and those are poor kids fall into that category.”

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  26. “I am, and I've talked to Republican leaders on the hill, Congressman Cole from Oklahoma who's in charge of the subcommittee, who is a real advocate for early ed. You know, when you do the priorities.”

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  27. “zero to five, which is a big emphasis of President Obama's, but those first five years of life when 90% of brain growth happens is, I think, the biggest social justice issue in this country when poor kids are entering, you know, at the age of four or 18 months behind my kid or your kids. And we spend billions of dollars trying to remediate that. It's outrageous. I mean, and it's that we don't do more as a country. And you see good support in Republican states like Alabama and Oklahoma for early ed. And yet we can as a country move this thing forward on a federal level. I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, frankly, President Obama pushing it and guide a lot of resistance. I wish the leadership in Washington would see what's going on in the States and make a commitment to our poor kids before they enter kindergarten. Because I think it's outrageous. Are you apprehensive?”

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  28. “Yeah, to save the children's been around for almost 100 years now. And the guy said, Yeah, they are. And Haley said, all right, let's invest in them. So, you know, those are whole life experiences that I had never had before, you know, and being in Mississippi or being in Alabama and meeting those folks and working on helping kids in those states was something I didn't have in Maryland. So I got, you know, friends now all across the country that are, you know, wonderful characters, Republicans and Democrats, because we work primarily in Republican states. And the focus on kids.”

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  29. “It's a grind, right? I mean, you know it better than I, but you get attacked, you got to raise money constantly. You got to be out of the house. I first went into politics, a guy who was a kind of a political operator in Maryland said, politics is a jealous mistress. And it can take you away from your wife, your husband, your kids, and it can be all consuming. So when I lost, you know, it opened up a whole slew of time that I didn't have when I was in politics. And that opened up other windows.”

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  30. “So I frankly think if I had won that race and I would never have had the relationship I had with my kids, my wife, and my parents, I would never have written the book on my pop. I would never have had the opportunity to write this book on the Pope. And those experiences have changed me in the way I look at things. And I hope made me a better husband and friend and colleague. And so I joked a couple minutes ago that I'm glad I lost. People were smart. They made the right decision. Chris is an excellent political leader. And we'll do a great job for Maryland and for the country. And I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. You touched on.”

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  31. “Yeah, no, no, I know. But he had a rise to power at a very young age and had a very influential position in his late 30s into his 50s. And then he had a dramatic fall. And he called it an exile based on his authoritarian demeanor and the way he behaved with people. And he came out of it much stronger. And it led him on his path to being the first Jesuit ever elected pope. And I think these, you know, moments where you lose or where you're exiled or you have a dark night of the soul, I think help you. And for me, it was great because I ended up, you know, going to save the children. It gave me the ability to raise our kids with my wife, Jeannie. I live about two miles from my folks. I helped them as they descended and died. It sparked this book I wrote on my dad called The Good Man, which in turn opened up this possibility of writing a book on Pope Francis.”

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  32. “Well, I mean, you know, no one likes to live, right? But I think I've just finished this book on Pope Francis. Yeah, we're going to get.”

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  33. “Yes He's a great legislator. He was in the state senate when I was in the House. He's a friend. He's actually, I can work for Save the Children, and he's come and talked to our board a couple of times in the last, I don't know, 10 years upon my invitation. So I have huge respect for his work. And he's a very good politician.”

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  34. “Or destroy it. Yeah. I agree with that 100%. But my point is if they were trying to make it better and, you know, the questions from the Democrats, the Republicans trying to make things better, I think if they're just trying to screw it or shortchange it just because it's introduced by a Democrat, then that's not good. And I think that has devolved into where we are in many cases.”

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  35. “Yeah, I think that's correct. And I think unfortunately the media wants to see conflict and wants to see some problem that's out there. So I think the good stuff that happens, which I think is by far the majority, doesn't get the ink, doesn't get the attention. And I think that's too bad too, because we focus on the negative, we focus on the dysfunctionality, as you say. So I think, you know, when I was in politics for eight years, I mean, Maryland is a state dominated by Democrats. And, you know, I didn't like it when the Republicans asked me questions, when I had my bills on the floor. But on reflection, they were doing the right thing. They were challenging it. They were trying to make it stronger. They were trying to change it, you know, based on their political philosophy. And that's healthy. I mean, that's the arena that right there.”

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  36. “There is, yeah. I mean, and I think politics is a noble profession, and I particularly, when it's practiced by men and women that have humility and realize they're not, you know, the leader of the end-all and the be-all so that they have to work across party lines and they have to compromise and try to move the country forward. And I think that sense of trying to move your state or your town, city, whatever country forward has been lost a little bit. And the notion”

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  37. “My mother loved politics. And I think she thought it was an honorable profession where you could make a real difference. And I think she's right”

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  38. “Over a couple hundred years, the Shriver family had been in essentially lots of practice in that side of the family in Maryland and a lot of pride from my pop's perspective. But there was never, you know, my father never said, you got to go in the Maryland legislature, or my mother never said that.”

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  39. “So we hired young college grads who would go out and monitor the kids' work with them every day. Seven days a week, multiple times a day, and the program grew from a small program with 25 kids in a public school where I worked to going all across Baltimore and all across Maryland. And I interacted with the Maryland legislature a lot because we were getting some state funding and we were advocating for systemic change on how they funded programs because I think they were funding some pretty lousy programs and we wanted to say don't fund these types of models but fund ones that are more efficient and more effective. So interacting with the legislature, you know, being in the front of the Appropriations Committee and the authorizing committees exposed me to the Maryland state government. And after doing that for seven years, six years, I decided to run for the House of Delegates. And my father's family had been involved in Maryland politics for”

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  40. “Jobs program. Talk about that. Yeah, so essentially what Marilyn did in the late 80s when I was coming out of college is they deinstitutionalized kids that had been locked up for juvenile delinquent acts, right? And you talked about the community support systems not being in place.”

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  41. “I think there's some of that expectation stuff, but I had worked with juvenile delinquents in Baltimore City for five or six years and run a project. You found this.”

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  42. “Yeah, she's just got a lot of positive. Yeah, positive energy. And her kids are like that, and they've lost obviously their dad and, you know, a couple brothers, and it's brutal. But they are positive and they, you know, grind away.”

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  43. “Yeah, Ethel Kennedy, sorry. Yeah, Bobby's Kennedy's wife. Every time I see her, how are you doing? I'm great. And I'm like, sometimes, you know, she's got to have aches and pain. She's, I don't know, almost 90 or something. I don't know how old she is. I'm great every day. You know, if you're going out in the summertime, she's around our kids. She knows all of our kids' names. She asks about them. She talks to them. She just is positive. And, you know, she's seen a lot of tragedy, right? But she's just, how you doing? I'm great. You know, if it's raining and miserable day, how you doing? I'm great. So it's like, yeah, she means it.”

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  44. “I think is this a big family, right? I mean, and I've lost, I don't know, three cousins, you know, that I knew growing up. Pretty well. I mean, really well, you know, and it's tragic, but I guess, you know, the sense that I get is that everybody is, you know, you got to pick the pieces back up and keep moving. And you got to keep, you know, moving. And I mean, you know, my on ethel, who I'm close to and I think the world of every time Robert K.”

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  45. “But the biggest thing I think we need to do is. That's exactly right because they don't have political sway. They're not making big campaign contributions. And when the cuts are made, they're the ones that don't have the biggest voice. And they're the most vulnerable. And it's the same is true with poor kids. And I think we're in a real situation now nationally where if we have huge investments in the military and defeating ISIS and at the same time want to cut income taxes for businesses and individuals and we want to support the veterans and then you have entitlement programs, the things that are most vulnerable for cuts Are going to be the very people you're talking about and also, you know, poor people.”

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  46. “I think you're right. I mean, you can get it in all aspects of where you tell people they should do this, it should in yourself, right? And you can shoot yourself all day long. Yeah. And I mean,”

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  47. “Isolated. They didn't have jobs. They weren't working at the grocery store and the law firm. They weren't getting married. They weren't allowed to live on their own. They weren't taking public transportation. Wow. I mean, now, you know, they're part of the society, right? And people forget about that. And I think a lot of that was knocked down because the Kennedy family said they had a child with developmental differences. And the Special Olympics creates momentum building on other folks who are working on this issue. And I think all these points of light, all of these ripples of hope really add up to changing the laws in America.”

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  48. “She had those experiences in the backyard. My folks rented a huge farm outside about half an hour outside of DC when my family moved, when they moved there in the 1960s. After the games here in 68, I mean, I remember bus loads of athletes, both young folks and older people with developmental differences coming off the buses, swimming in the swimming pool, running around in the backyard. And it was a big farm. So they had obstacle courses. They had softball games. They had volleyball games. They had football games. They had walks in the woods. And that was all, you know, created energy around. And that movement. You got to, you know, for somebody, I'm 50, right? So people forget that 60 years ago, people with developmental differences were locked up.”

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  49. “And I think it makes a big difference for the families too, right? I mean, I think my mother loved the athletes, but really also loved the families. Yeah, these things are familiar.”

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  50. “that he turned to mother and said, you know, Eunice, the world will never be the same as a result of these games, which is great, you know, insight because those games have helped change laws in America, but really all around the world, because leaders of countries seated athletes can participate, athletes with developmental differences. I was in Beijing a couple years before the, quote, regular Olympics happened. We had this summer special Olympic Games. And, I mean, it was 100,000 people at the opening ceremonies. The head of China was there. I mean, it was changing things in China for people. I don't think people...”

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