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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Edward Brooke

Edward Brooke stories: 2 news summaries

 Obama Honors Senate 
 Trailblazer Brooke 

Republican senator wins Congress' highest honor

Oct 29, 09 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of people packed into the Capitol Rotunda yesterday to honor Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts politician who in 1967 became the first black senator since Reconstruction. Now 90, Brooke was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the legislature's highest honor. Sitting to his right was another trailblazer—President Obama, who had... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • Senate Republicans • Congressional Gold Medal • African-Americans • Edward Brooke • Congressional Republicans

Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

TV host drops bombshell on relationship with Mass. Republican Brooke on Oprah

May 1, 08 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barbara Walters has revealed she had a long affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, America’s first elected black senator. In a bombshell admission on a forthcoming episode of Oprah, the grande dame of TV anchors says the married Brooke—a moderate Massachusetts Republican who served in 1967-79—was... More »

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Barbara Walters • Oprah Winfrey • affair • Edward Brooke

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