Booker said he was feeling “deep grief” over Lewis’s death at 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
WASHINGTON — On the morning after Rep. John Lewis died, Sen. Cory Booker spoke with Yahoo News on Saturday about his experiences with the man he viewed as a mentor and a “titan of American history.”
“His office, by the way, is like a museum of civil rights memorabilia … and he's in every picture,” the New Jersey senator recounted. “So, you have this humbling moment to just sit in his presence and sit in his office. … To have him tell me, try to impress upon me, how grateful he is to see me be the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to the United States Senate and tell me how much it meant to him to give him the sense of fruition of his struggles.
Lewis also accompanied Booker on a road trip to visit former President Jimmy Carter in Georgia before Booker launched his own presidential campaign last year. Booker and Lewis also had a brief conversation about a week before the Georgia congressman’s death. “You can see his body is physically more slight, and he's standing there with the mayor of Washington, D.C. … on the ‘Black Lives Matter’ words. … That picture, I just had to stop and stare at it for a long time,” Booker said. “It spoke volumes of where he stood, ailing from cancer, ‘but God's not finished with me yet.’”
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