MMU's Professor John Brooks led the tribute to a "special person" who he described as an "affable young man" and "fine student with great potential".

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Besides the letters (to a range of correspondents stretching from John Lennon and John Updike to Rajiv Gandhi and the socks department at Brooks Brothers), there are memorandums (many to the four Presidents he served, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford being the others), notes to himself summarizing conversations he considered important, and entries from his private journal, which include some delightful travel writing.

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The three-hour televised show also included performances from American Idol winners Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, Garth Brooks and George Strait, and Brad Paisley and John Mayer.

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