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My father was essential to my mother's political career. My father was a science guy with a, a whole range of political interests. And so, 

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he—it was not a distraction to him to take an interest in my mother's political work. I mean, they were, in, in some ways, a, a real partnership in, in the 

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political business of the, of the family. He was her principal—electorally speaking— advisor. 

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He ran, I'd—in the '60s and '70s, certainly, he ran her campaigns. 

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He—occupationally, after she was elected to Congress in '64, he sort of divided his time between D.C. and Hawaii. And so, he was often in Hawaii to 

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witness firsthand developments that, that she needed to respond to, and so she relied on him certainly for that kind of filtering of information that, 

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that only somebody that you trust totally can provide to you. So, yeah, he was totally involved.