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Dan Inouye and Ted Stevens, they were like brothers. 

Dan Inouye won a Medal of Honor fighting for his country in Italy.  He would serve 59 years in Congress and he would be the example our leadership should always look to for building consensus and reaching across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion. He had two famous cross party friendships we can examine with Bob Dole and with Ted Stevens. 

The friendship with Ted Stevens was legendary and together they built modern day Hawaii and Alaska and the modern military too from their places on the Appropriation's Committee and the military subcommittee they shared chairmanships of together. 

But the greatest test of their friendship came when Stevens was wrongfully accused, tried, and convicted for lying on his ethics forms. Throughout it all his friend stayed loyal to him even taking on his own party in a tight reelection fight that Stevens eventually lost. Here we look at these two giants of the Senate and hear their friend, now President, Joe Biden give their eulogies. 

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