Bob Mondello
speaker
1,878 appearances
201 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard today
Bob Mondello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he discovers that on one of them, 23-year-old David recorded his own voice.
It seems a gift.
Sorry.
So David sings to Lionel the song Lionel first sang to him.
As I was choking up, I couldn't help wishing that my dad's story had had a coda like that.
Dad was a top government lawyer for much of his career, so for years I'd searched news archives, libraries, thinking there must be tape of him somewhere, but never found any.
Recently, I mentioned my search to a friend whose dad was also a lawyer, and she said, didn't you tell me he once presented a case at the Supreme Court?
They started recording oral arguments back in the 1950s.
A couple of hours later, she'd found the recording, beginning with the voice of Chief Justice Earl Warren.
It was dated February 18, 1963, a few weeks before my 14th birthday.
And suddenly, memories from that morning came flooding back of Dad getting dressed for court.
He'd rented what he called a monkey suit, which usually means a tux.
But this was formal morning dress required of government lawyers in the Supreme Court.
Black cutaway coat with long rounded tail, dark gray striped trousers, gray vest, shirt with a high starched collar.
I remember thinking he looked like he was going to the ascot races in My Fair Lady.
Anyway, now I had a picture in my head, but I hadn't heard his voice in more than a decade.
And that had been his 87-year-old voice.
This would be his 43-year-old voice, the one he'd used to help me struggle through algebra homework and cheer me on at swim meets.
I hadn't heard that in a full half century.
The plaintiff's lawyer spoke first, laying out the case for damages after a steamship collision.
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