Talk:Edward Brooke

DEAD!!
didn't he die about 2 years ago? i've never seen a wiki page lag like this.

i'm a newb and don't know how to fix it. but s/o surely should!

also, perhaps, a note in the baba wawa section that she waited until his passing to reveal the affair.

66.105.218.4 (talk) 06:37, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I can't see any reference to him having died. There would be Orbits in major newspapers and magazines. - SimonLyall (talk) 12:54, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Actually, even though Brooke is 91 and not in the news very often, he is doing well and therefore is far from dying!74.163.169.42 (talk) 22:06, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

I quite honestly believe that it will be October 26, 2019 before Brooke is dead.72.144.138.250 (talk) 21:59, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

First African American ??
First African Americen to be elected Senator? How about Blanche Bruce and Hiram Rhoades Revels --170.35.208.20 20:24, 25 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Rhodes and Bruce went to the Senate before the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment which stipulated direct election of Senators. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shsilver (talk • contribs) 16:44, 25 July 2005

If any of you REALLY want know who Edward W Brooke is, please read his book, BRIDGING THE DIVIDE. Ed Brooke reconizes he was the first African American to be elected since reconstruction. I went to a book signing. Spoke of this. There have been only five African Americans every elected to the Senate. Hiram Rhoades Revels 1870, Blanche Kelso Bruce 1870, Edward W Brook 1966, Carol Mosely Braun 1993, and Barack Obama 2004. As to his COLOR, he has been fighting cancer. His treatments my have been the cause. If Ed Brooke saw this question, he would be very disappointed. I leave you will what he wrote in my ll year old daughter's book: "With best wishs for a life filled with purpose, achivement, and joy!" Sincerly Ed Brooke

Revels and Bruce were elected in the same way every senator was prior to the 17th amendment ratified in 1913, and that was they were elected by the state legislatures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.195.66.48 (talk) 14:52, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Presidential Medal of Freedom - no citation
Brooke is listed in Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and the List of notable Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, but there is nothing in his article about it ... can someone please provide a date or something? &mdash;Dennette 19:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC) boom

Keynote Speaker?
I did not add this, as I can't find a reference to this anywhere online or in Wikipedia, but I believe that Senator Brooke was the keynote speaker to the Republican National Convention in 1968. This probably makes him the first African-American to be a keynote speaker to a major American party's convention. Can anyone back that up? Henrymrx 19:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Barbara Walters Affair
"The affair was reportedly ended out of fear that if it became public it could ruin both of their up-and-coming careers." I lmao'd at this!! Is this neutral? Am I the only one who found this hilarious? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.198.223.185 (talk) 19:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The article now makes it clear that this is what Walters said. That's a fact; we can leave speculation to readers. -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 21:57, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Conservatism
I don't think this arcticle should be placed in category "African American conservatism". Brooke was a Republican but was not a conservative, esspecially GOP conservative Darth Kalwejt (talk) 20:02, 5 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd tend to agree and may remove it later.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:13, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Health Issues
I listened to Roland S. Martin and Tom Joyner interview Senator Brooke in late August. During the interview, Brooke said that he had serious health issues and is not able to walk in crowds. How is he doing now?68.215.94.247 (talk) 21:56, 16 October 2009 (UTC) Not to worry; I think he is in very good health now.72.153.57.29 (talk) 14:36, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Awards
I searched Senator Brooke on Google, and learned that he is to get another award on May 22. What is that about?74.163.168.192 (talk) 00:32, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I removed several awards from the list because I can't find any references in RSs. If someone can reference these they should be re-added: American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal--Johnsemlak (talk) 14:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Black?
He looks more Anglo than Obama. Who were his parents? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.7.178.207 (talk) 00:21, 9 July 2010 (UTC) If you want to know why he looks more Anglo than Obama, and who his parents were, you should read his autobiography, "Bridging the Divide: My Life," which is my favorite book!72.148.141.77 (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Added tag
The template's boilerplate language doesn't quite fit, so by way of clarifying: That remainder of that section has a line-by-line, year-by-year list of accomplishments / honors in a resume-like format, rather than being written in paragraph prose with context. Also, very significantly, these undoubtedly true statements nonetheless need to have footnoted citations. --Tenebrae (talk) 23:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Not sure where this quote should go
He refused to endorse Sen. Barry Goldwater for president in 1964, commenting later, "You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.199.68.222 (talk) 05:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Death on first day of Congress.
So having been a public servant who only ever served entire terms, all the dates in his CV, his infobox, are January 3rd, and then he died on January 3rd. Silas Maxfield (talk) 17:38, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

ethnic irish quote
I removed the unsourced claim: "the Democratic Party drew from ethnic Irish and union members who were a majority in his district and unlikely to vote for a Republican or an African-American". The citation to the 2000 Boston Globe article mentions nothing of the sort. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snarfblaat (talk • contribs) 17:39, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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Barbara Walters Affair
I see no mention of his affair with Barbara Walters. While not the measure of a man, it did become public and was a notable event in his life. Should it not be mentioned in 2 or 3 lines? Seki1949 (talk) 18:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have any reliable sources on which such an addition could be based? --JBL (talk) 18:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * From the Barbara Waters page: In Walters's autobiography Audition, she claimed that she had an affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, then a married United States Senator from Massachusetts. It is not clear whether Walters also was married at the time. Walters said they ended the affair to protect their careers from scandal.[73]


 * I'll check to see what else I can find. As a proposal: In Barbara Waters autobiography Audition, she stated that she and the then married Brooke had an affair.Seki1949 (talk) 19:13, 18 January 2021 (UTC)


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/us/edward-brooke-pioneering-us-senator-in-massachusetts-dies-at-95.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seki1949 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

"In May 2008, the television newswoman Barbara Walters revealed in a memoir that she and Mr. Brooke had begun a clandestine romance in 1973. After telling him in a letter that she would divulge the affair in her book, he wrote back “a very nice note,” Ms. Walters said." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seki1949 (talk • contribs) 19:27, 18 January 2021 (UTC)