Meet Senator Edward Brooke, retired Republican Senator from Massachusetts. Barbara Walters has just revealed on the Oprah Winfrey Show that she had a long running affair with Senator Brooke in the 1970s. Get to know who he is. We have his biography as well as photos and a video of him below.
Edward Brooke
Barbara Walters taped an interview for the Oprah Winfrey Show and revealed that she had a long term affair with Senator Edward Brooke, Republican of Massachusetts in the 1970s. She recalled the affair with great affection saying that she remembers Senator Brooke as ‘brilliant’ and ‘exciting’. Walters appearance on Oprah is to talk about her new book, ‘Audition’, which recounts both her public and private life. Barbara Walters tells Oprah that she and Brooke kept the affair quiet for fear it would ruin both their careers. Senator Brooke has not commented on Walters’ revelations. The show is scheduled to air next Tuesday.
Senator Edward Brooke Biography
Edward William Brooke, III was born on October 26, 1919 in Washington D.C. He attended public schools in D.C. He graduated from Howard University in D.C. in 1941. He was a Captain in the United States Army with the 366th Infantry Regiment in Italy. He served for five years until the end of World War II. He then graduated from Boston University Law School in 1948.
Brooke began his career as a prosecutor in Boston. He ran for public office several times without success while continuing to command a reputation in Boston as a fierce prosecutor. He became known as a crime fighter, vigorously prosecuting organized crime and corruption. He also worked with local police departments on the Boston Strangler case. Edward Brooke held several offices for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts including as Chairman of the Finance Commission for the City of Boston (1961 - 1962) and then as the first African American in the United States to be elected as a state’s Attorney General. He served as Attorney General for the Commonwealth in 1962 and again in 1964. He was then elected to the United States Senate in 1966 and served two terms. He was unsuccessful in his third re-election bid which ended his Senate career in January 1979. Many attribute his loss to a very public and ugly divorce he was going through at the time.
Senator Edward Brooke was the first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote. He remains the last Republican elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. On June 23, 2004 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
Former Senator Brooke is currently living in Miami, Florida with his second wife, Amy. He is the father of two daughters and a son.
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Edward Brooke Video
May 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
My initial reaction is that Barbara Walters is worse than Spitzer’s hooker. The hooker only revealed her relationship when required by law. Barbara Walters is pimping a book. Shame on the hussy!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I agree McCain - what a hussy! After all these years and she reveals this to sell a book!
May 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
hey i had a long term affair with tom selleck, daniel craig, harrison ford (briefly), gerard butler (when he was preparing for 300, not now that he is skinny again), and of course steven mcqueen … and you don’t see me bragging about it
May 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pm
oh … you mean in real life?
sorry … sometimes the imagination runs wild
May 1st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Gorgo waking up from Leonidas stroking her back]
Queen Gorgo: Your lips can finish what your fingers have started… or has the Oracle robbed you of your desire as well?
King Leonidas: It would take more than the words than a drunken adolescent girl to rob me of my desire of you.
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Theron: [before raping Queen Gorgo] This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I’m not your King.
Queen Gorgo: [having stabbed Theron and while holding sword into his body] This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your Queen!
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Messenger: What makes this woman think she can speak among men?
Queen Gorgo: Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Are you trying to say that Edward Brooke is as old as Leonidas?
Can anyone say “Edward Brooke Edmund Burke” 3 times fast?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
lisab, me too!!! Tom Selleck, Daniel Craig, Gerard Butler (BE STILL MY HEART!!!). I’m like you, I dumped him after he got all skinny after 300. I liked him MUCH better then. Harrison Ford - well, I liked him for about a minute. Steve McQueen!! OH MY.
Girl, you have good taste! I can’t believe we shared all those men!
Oh - and Russell Crowe.
There are others I’ll keep in my heart until I write my memoirs and need the publicity.
Sigh. The imagination is better than the reality most of the time anyway ;0
May 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
harrison ford was just a short fling for me too, back when i was briefly amish
i like my men to be men, i just don’t understand these girls today who like these pretty boys like ashton kutcher or justin timberlake.
i have never even seen a pierce brosnan james bond movie … why bother? but daniel craig? nice!
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 am
Clarke Gable - definitely born in the wrong generation!
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:24 am
MBT - YES! Clarke - omg. He was gorgeous.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 am
And the same week Cher admits to Oprah she dated Tom Cruise. What is it with famous women this week?
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 am
Lisab, Harrison Ford is a wimp, not a man. When it comes time to defending your honor in a bar he would start talking about Tibet.
Truth is there are very few actors who are appealing to both men and women.
No man would want to shoot pool with Clark Gable or Russel Crowe. But we would gladly down brewskies with Humphrey Bogard, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, or, well, Kojak, you know.
Women, how little they understand of us.
Which brings me back to Edward Brooke and Barbara Walters. Edward Brooke looked like a sissy even before he was drooling on his book. How can a man have pretty lips and be called a man? I rest my case.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Clark Gable, Rock Hudson, and Russel Crowe are on the border for me. just a little too pretty, though Clark Gable is was one fine looking man i’ll give you that.
now Cary Grant i like. oooo how about Antonio Banderas?
as far as men both women and men like …
sean connery … he’s my daddy
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
and steve mcqueen … what man does not aspire to be steve mcqueen
and how about john wayne or yul brenner?
(ok, john wayne only in the right light … like he was in the Quiet Man)
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
one of the best screen kisses ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtOaAVFoD_M
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWIlGnJDRzw&feature=related
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Paul Newman had it going til he screwed up. Racing cars was a giant plus but then he traded his manhood for salad dressing.
Steve McQueen? Too short to be considered manly, but he was good in one movie. Give him that.
Yul Brenner? No stage actor is truly respected. I mean, didn’t he sing?
Cary Grant. I think he qualifies because of his sarcasm and dismissive tone toward his mother and girlfriend in North by Northwest. Agreed.
Sean Connery, bingo. I could hang with him.
Which brings me back to Barbara Walters affair with Edward Brooke. I suspect that she wore the pants in that relationship, don’t you think?
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
oh and eastwood, not pretty, but a man’s man and women like him ok too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkYN_gaWS2g
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGtaXD_dfc&feature=related
how could i forget daniel day lewis?
if you can’t get lucky after bringing a woman to see the last of the mohiccans … you must be really really disgusting.
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Hawkeye: My father’s people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So there’s the Cameron’s monument. My folks’ too, I guess.
Cora Munro: You are right, Mr. Poe. We do not understand what is happening here. And it’s not as I imagined it would be, thinking of it in Boston and in London…
Hawkeye: Sorry to disappoint you.
Cora Munro: No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.
Hawkeye: My father warned me about you…
Cora Munro: [interupting] Your Father?
Hawkeye: Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
Cora Munro: Oh, did he?
Hawkeye: He said “Do not try to understand them”.
Cora Munro: What?
Hawkeye: Yes, and, “do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense”.
Cora Munro: A breed a part, we make no sense?
Hawkeye: In your particular case, Miss, I’d make an allowance.
Cora Munro: Thank you so much.
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Duncan: And who empowered these colonials to pass judgement on England’s policies, and to come and go without so much as a “by your leave”?
Cora Munro: They do not live their lives “by your leave”! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!
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Cora Munro: Justice? If that’s justice than the sooner French guns blow the English out of America the better it will be for the people here!
Colonel Munro: You do not know what you’re saying, girl!
Cora Munro: Yes I do, I know exactly what what I’m saying, and if it is sedition, than I am guilty of sedition too!
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
ok being from boston
cora is my role model …
but her boyfriend hawkeye is a babe
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Huh…I don’t remember any of that “birth of the sun” stuff from any of the M.A.S.H. episodes…
Chilean Sea Bass must be pretty good. Al doesn’t strike me as the mess o frozen fishsticks type, he prolly knows him bout some fancy eatin.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I did have respect for barbara walters gone—gone—-gone. I don’t think senator edward brooke is happy about this. i ask why barbara suddenly revealed such a personel detail was it to impress oprah the fact she slept with a black man?. does it matter ? This may cause him and family pain and suffering
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:29 am
It is Anne Brooke, not Amy. Perfect exmple why one is not to to trust most web sources
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:23 am
It could be worse. He could have had an affair with Joy Behr. Yuck!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
MDefl - ewwww - I didn’t need THAT image in my head!