Former Senator Quiet on Relationship With Barbara Walters

Former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke is not commenting on Barbara Walters 's admission that they had an affair in the '70s while he was married and in office. "I have had a lifetime policy and practice of not discussing my personal and private life, or the personal and private lives of others, with the notable exception of what I wrote in my recently published autobiography, Bridging the Divide: My Life ," he told the AP Friday. Their relationship – which Walters told Oprah Winfrey lasted several years – was not mentioned in his book, but Walters wrote about it in her forthcoming memoir, Audition . In a taped interview to air Tuesday, Winfrey asks Walters if she was love with the senator. "I was certainly - I don't know - I was infatuated," the View host responded. The twice-divorced Walters went on to say, "I was certainly involved... He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington." (link)