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The Max Cleland Collection: Video Clips

40 second video clip
Max recounts his first visit to the Georgia State Senate.

45 second video clip
Max talks about Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign and President Carter's decision to name Max the youngest Director of the Veterans Administration.

5 min. 30 sec. video clip
Max speaks about many Senators, including Lyndon Johnson, Dick Russell, John Stennis, Joe Biden, and Ted Kennedy.

1 min. 45 sec. video clip
Stories about the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port and an insight into Senate "hideaways."

1 min. video clip
Max talks about his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton.

1 min. 50 sec. video clip
Max tells of seeing President John F. Kennedy in a parade in Washington, DC as a Stetson student on the Washington semester. As part of his semester he had been in the Oval Office with McGeorge Bundy and got to see Kennedy's famous desk - 72 hours later Kennedy was assassinated.

3 min. 35 sec. video clip
Max recounts being in his Senate office with General Richard Myers when the country was attacked on 9-11.

1 min. 15 sec. video clip
Max discusses General Westmoreland and his tactics in Vietnam and how they relate to the Iraq War.

50 sec. video clip
Max relates how he and John Kerry fought in the same war and how the Republicans mischaracterized Kerry's war experience.

1 min. 40 sec. video clip
A cariacature of Max in his wheelchair reminds him of the press portrayal of FDR without his wheelchair ("the splendid deception") and the impact of press coverage of George Wallace in his wheelchair.

45 sec. video clip
Max talks about going to Ft. Stewart with Ted Kennedy during the early phase of the Iraq War.

4 min. 10 sec. video clip
Max talks about the Vietnam Memorial (The Wall), war veterans, and how he came very close to having his name on The Wall.

4 min. 20 sec. video clip
Max speaks about the first Gulf War and the mission and tactics of George H.W. Bush, General Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell as opposed to the mission and tactics of the Iraq War.

4 min. 5 sec. video clip
Max reminices about meeting Jimmy Carter for the first time in 1970 and thinking he didn't stand a chance to win the Governor's race or later the presidency. Max talks about their relationship over the years and President Carter naming him the head of the Veterans Administration.

2 min. 30 sec. video clip
Max discusses Al Gore and the loss of the 2000 election. He tells why he believes that the first decade of the 21st Century will become known as the "Lost Decade" because of George W. Bush's agenda.

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