S2082 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 4, 2011 Streamers and confetti hailed from the Crimsons coach Stacy Pendleton said. ‘‘They mous consent that my remarks be rafters, blanketing the team and the just beat us. We played as hard as we could.’’ printed in the RECORD. record number of 5,122 screaming spec- Manual led 37–28 early in the third quarter, There being no objection, the mate- tators at E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling but Rockcastle County charged back and rial was ordered to be printed in the eventually tied it at 47 on a Lawrence three- Green, KY. pointer with 5:07 left in the fourth. RECORD, as follows: Their victory was the first champion- Hammond scored 19 points in the first half, I am honored to accept the Lewis R. ship title for coach Chrysti Noble in but it was Lawrence who carried the Lady Donelson III award, but in truth, the only her 21 seasons at Rockcastle High Rockets late with 15 points after the break. appropriate person to receive the award is School. It also made the Lady Rockets ‘‘Their other kids really stepped up in the Lewis R. Donelson himself. Lewie is a re- the first team not from Lexington or second half,’’ Pendleton said. ‘‘But if it markable individual. He will be 94 years of Louisville to win the girls’ basketball wasn’t for (Hammond) in the first half, I age in October. Two years ago, he shot a hole State championship in more than a think we could have blown them out.’’ in one and he regularly shoots his age in Lawrence sank two free throws with 27.5 golf. His doctor can find nothing physically decade. wrong with him and he takes no medicine. I The students and faculty of seconds left for a 55–53 lead, but Kayla Styles’ basket with 2 seconds left tied it and am convinced the only appropriate next step Rockcastle High School, the commu- forced overtime. for Lewie is to put him into the Smithso- nity of Mount Vernon and the entire The Lady Rockets never trailed in the nian. Commonwealth couldn’t be more proud extra period and led 60–58 after Michaela No other family’s thread runs so proudly of this talented, winning team. The Hunter’s free throw with 1:22 left. Kara through Tennessee’s history, from John Sunday after winning the champion- Wright tied it at 60 on a jumper with 56 sec- Donelson’s river trip to Nashville in 1779 to ship, the equivalent of one-fifth of the onds left, and Rockcastle County held for the ’s marriage to John’s daugh- population of Mount Vernon turned out final shot. ter, Rachel, to Lewie’s life of distinguished Lady Rockets coach Chrysti Noble chose public service. Thank you to the Ladies Her- to wish the Lady Rockets well as the mitage Association for your remarkable team members rode through town atop not to call a timeout. ‘‘They’re experienced, and they’ve been work preserving Andrew Jackson’s home. three fire engines, a convoy of honking here,’’ she said. ‘‘I was like, ‘No, let them go. I was sworn in as vehicles and jubilant fans following be- Let them determine the outcome of the three days early, on January 17, 1979. I did hind. Their hard work, dedication and ballgame.’ They did.’’ this at the request of the U.S. Attorney in respect for one another undoubtedly Lawrence drove to the lane and nailed her order to prevent the incumbent governor makes them a team that will be re- jumper from the right elbow. from issuing pardons to prisoners whom the membered for years to come. ‘‘I was feeling it,’’ Lawrence said. ‘‘It was FBI believed had paid cash for their release. Mr. President, the Louisville Courier- a terrible-looking shot, but I had faith in Lewis Donelson offered the prayer at that myself. I knew I would hit it.’’ surprise inauguration ceremony. One of my Journal recently published an article first acts as governor was to direct Lewie to about the Rockcastle High School Hammond said there was a bit of confusion in the final minute. take charge of, and secure, the state capitol. Lady Rockets’ history-making season ‘‘I kept asking, ‘What offense are you run- Someone said, ‘‘Lewie has been waiting his and what the championship meant to ning? What offense are you running?’ ’’ Ham- whole life for someone to ask him to do the team, the school and the Common- mond said. ‘‘(Lawrence) had that look in her that.’’ wealth. I ask unanimous consent that eye that she was taking it to the hole. She’s Lewis Donelson was my first appointee be- the full article be printed in the done that over and over again. We knew it cause I knew that if he agreed to be the chief operating officer of state government, it RECORD. was in her heart, and we trusted her for that shot.’’ would help to recruit others during a time of There being no objection, the mate- a crisis in confidence. rial was ordered to be printed in the Manual called a timeout with 0.5 second left but couldn’t get a final shot. Lewie’s negotiating style became well RECORD, as follows: Pendleton was left to wonder what might known around the Capitol. He would knock [From the Courier-Journal, Mar. 13, 2011] have been with junior guard April Wilson out you to the floor with his first offer. By the GIRLS’ SWEET 16 ROCKCASTLE COUNTY BEATS since the regional final with a broken hand. time you had gotten halfway back up you MANUAL 62–60 FOR TITLE ON LAST-SECOND He also had two seniors foul out in the would have agreed with him and considered SHOT final—Raven Hester with 1:29 left in regula- that a success. (By Jason Frakes) tion and Mechael Guess at the 2:49 mark of About the only thing I was ever able to tell Lewie to do was to stop driving his car to the BOWLING GREEN, KY—The knock all season overtime. Capitol while reading a newspaper, and he on the Rockcastle County High School girls’ ‘‘To do all of this without April is amaz- only stopped that after he ran into the back basketball team was that it’s a one-woman ing,’’ Pendleton said. ‘‘That shows you how great this team is. . . . Mechael fouling out of another car. squad, led by McDonald’s All American Sara Alex Haley once told me, ‘‘Lamar, if you was a huge problem, huge. You take away Hammond. would say, ‘let me tell you a story’ instead of The Lady Rockets now have a state cham- our No. 1 scoring punch and rebounding. making a speech, people might actually lis- pionship trophy to prove that never was the That was a huge blow.’’ ten to what you have to say.’’ So, tonight, case. For Rockcastle County it was a huge win let me tell you the story of Andrew Jackson Angie Lawrence nailed a jumper in the and gave the 12th Region its first state and Sam ’s Walking Stick. lane with 1 second left in overtime to give champion since Laurel County in 1991. The setting for this story is the first half Rockcastle County a 62–60 victory over Man- Noble, in her 21st season at Rockcastle of the 19th century. Tennessee was then the ual in the final of the Houchens/KHSAA County, said the victory was important for fifth most populous state. This was the West. Sweet 16. the school of 910 students and the commu- There were three Tennessee presidents— A state final-record crowd of 5,122 at E.A. nity of Mount Vernon. Jackson, Polk and Johnson—and two who as- Diddle Arena saw Rockcastle County capture ‘‘It’s so good to know there’s something pired to be President: Davy Crockett and its first state championship and end a 10- good from Rockcastle County instead of . year reign of title winners from either Louis- hearing all the bad stuff,’’ she said. ‘‘There The political competition was intense. In ville or Lexington. West Carter (2000) was the are a lot of good things that happen in our 1834, Andrew Jackson’s forces defeated the last school not from either of Kentucky’s community. . . . young congressman from West Tennessee, largest cities to win the crown. ‘‘When you come through Rockcastle David Crockett, who then rode his horse to ‘‘This is the best feeling ever,’’ said Ham- you’ll get to see a sign up, I hope, that says, the courthouse steps and said to the assem- mond, a University of Louisville signee who ‘Welcome to Rockcastle County, 2011 state bled crowd what defeated politicians have al- was named the Sweet 16 MVP. ‘‘I knew we champions of girls’ basketball.’ ’’ were going to get it done tonight.’’ ways wanted to say to such voters, ‘‘I’m The 6-foot-2 Hammond posted 26 points and f going to and you can go to hell.’’ 11 rebounds to lead the Lady Rockets (36–1), SAM HOUSTON’S WALKING STICK The two-party competition of that era pro- who finished the season with a 27-game win- duced strong leaders just as the reemergence ning streak and lost only to Mount Juliet Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, on of a two party system during the last half- (Tenn.) 60–47 on Dec. 30. Friday, I spoke at the Ladies Hermit- century has sent Tennesseans to national po- Lawrence, a 5-5 senior who has signed with age Association’s Annual banquet in sitions from Vice President and Senate Ma- Georgetown College, added 18 points. Nashville. This extraordinary organiza- jority Leader to Cabinet membership. There LeAsia Wright had 19 points and Kara tion, for 122 years, has preserved the have, as yet, been no more presidents, al- though there have been regular attempts. Wright 12 for Manual (33–5), which was No. 1 home of President Andrew Jackson. No in the state in The Courier-Journal’s In 1807, when Thomas Jefferson was presi- Litkenhous Ratings all season. former President’s home has more his- dent, the widow Elizabeth Paxson Houston, ‘‘Our best wasn’t good enough to win the torical objects from a President’s life aged 50, loaded six sons and three daughters game, but it’s good enough for me,’’ Lady than does the Hermitage. I ask unani- into two wagons and moved from Virginia to

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Sam found the life of a In one of his last letters to Donelson, Andrew except that he did not have a book of John young Indian man more appealing than Jackson wrote, ‘‘I knew British gold could F. Kennedy’s library as he had opposed working in the family store, so at 16 he ran not buy Sam Houston.’’ President Kennedy and he did not want to away from home to live with the Indians and The ’ river passage was delayed pay a premium for one of his books . . . I became known by a Cherokee name, Raven. when their steamboat ran aground. Finally, purchased a book that formerly belonged to By 1813, the War of 1812 was in full swing. at about 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 8, 1845, the John F. Kennedy . . . and we were able to In Maryville, Sam took a silver dollar from steamboat tied up at the Nashville landing trade this with money to Mr. Horn for his the recruiter’s drumhead and enlisted. In on the Cumberland River. The Houstons were walking stick.’’ February of 1814, his regiment received a call told that Jackson was near death. They Ben Caldwell also told me last year: to go to the aid of General Andrew Jackson hired a coach to race to the Hermitage. A ‘‘Mr. Horn had offered the stick to the San at Horseshoe bend in Alabama. For the next few miles outside Nashville their coach met Jacinto Museum in Texas but they gave him 31 years, Sam Houston was a friend and the Jackson family physician. He told them some rigamarole and he said ‘to hell with it’ prote´ge´ of Andrew Jackson. that Jackson had died at about the same and so Baker Duncan and I bought the stick Jackson taught Houston how to fight a time the Houstons had arrived in Nashville. from him.’’ duel. In 1823, he helped Houston be elected to Proceeding on to the Hermitage, Houston In 1985, I bought Sam Houston’s walking the U.S. House of Representatives. The next lifted his two-year-old son and said, ‘‘Try to stick from Ben Caldwell and Baker Duncan. year Houston helped Jackson in his unsuc- remember that you have looked upon the Ben said it would be appropriate for the sec- cessful bid for the presidency. With Jack- face of Andrew Jackson.’’ Houston then put ond Tennessee governor from Blount County son’s help Houston became governor of Ten- his head on Jackson’s chest and wept. At to own the walking stick of the first. So he nessee in 1827. midnight he wrote to President Polk, ‘‘I arranged a three-way purchase swap that With Houston’s help, Jackson was elected have seen the corpse. The visage is much as worked this way: I paid money to Mr. Horn’s president in 1828. One biographer of Houston it was in life.’’ daughter, Ruth Crownover, for a sword that said that for Houston ‘‘to be governor of Ten- The Houstons were guests at the Donelson belonged to General Stonewall Jackson and nessee with Old Hickory in the White House plantation, Tulip Grove, for several days then traded that sword to Baker Duncan for was as close to being the Prince of Wales as after Jackson’s death. Houston led the fu- his half of the Houston stick. I also paid Mrs. American blood could approach. Houston was neral cortege as he had as governor when Ra- Crownover for a bird bath sculpted by Will the all-but-anointed heir of the most popular chel Jackson died. When Houston left Nash- Edmondson and then traded that to Ben for president since Washington himself.’’ ville to travel to Texas, he left his walking his half of the cane. A local judge wrote at the time ‘‘Houston stick at Tulip Grove. It is made of mulberry I then gave the stick to our youngest son, stood six-foot-six in his socks, was of fine wood and has a solid gold cap. The stick is Will Houston Alexander, who we named for contour, a remarkable well-proportioned split and has been glued together, which may Sam Houston. When Will was born in 1979, man, and of commanding and gallant bear- have been the reason Houston left it. Honey said that I was ‘‘in my Sam Houston ing. He enjoyed unbounded popularity among How do we know this stick was Houston’s phase.’’ The lure of Texas also attracted the men and was a great favorite with the la- stick? Will. He spent seven years at the University dies.’’ For one thing, the words ‘‘Sam Houston’’ of Texas and its law school but now is living As governor, Houston often visited the and ‘‘Texas’’ and a Lone Star are engraved in Nashville. We are glad that he is here to- Hermitage, sometimes picking flowers in Ra- on the gold cap. night. chel Jackson’s garden. He was chief pall- For another, we know from photographs I have since displayed Sam Houston’s bearer when Rachel died on Christmas Eve of and historical accounts that Houston carried walking stick in the offices of Tennessee’s 1828, just after Jackson’s election to the walking sticks. We also know that he knew governor, the president of the University of Presidency. The next month Governor Hous- how to use his stick. In March of 1832, while Tennessee, and the U.S. Secretary of Edu- ton, then 36 years of age, married Eliza Allen visiting Washington, DC, Houston encoun- cation. The story of the stick has always of Gallatin, who was 18. In March, Jackson tered Congressman Stanberry from Ohio who produced good conversation, as well as sev- became President. A month later, on April had criticized the Jackson Indian policy. eral attempts by Texans to run off with it. 16, 1829, distraught over some still unex- Houston confronted Stanberry and said, For the last eight years, Sam Houston’s plained trouble with Eliza, Houston resigned ‘‘You are a damned rascal!’’ and whacked walking stick has been displayed in my the governorship and went to live with his him multiple times over the head with his Senate office in Washington, old friends, the Indians who by then had hickory cane, cut from the grounds of the DC. It is beneath a photograph of Sam Hous- moved west. He married again and made his Hermitage. ton taken when he was United States Sen- way to Texas in 1832. Fortunately, we know about the prove- ator from Texas. In that photograph Senator We all know that the great story of Sam nance of Sam Houston’s walking stick from Houston is standing with a walking stick Houston and Texas. But the story I would Stanley Horn, the former Tennessee state much like the one he left in Nashville 166 like to complete here tonight is of Sam historian, and Dr. Ben Caldwell. Both Mr. years ago when Andrew Jackson died. Houston’s walking stick and Andrew Jack- Horn and Dr. Caldwell once owned this stick. f son’s death. Dr. Caldwell is here tonight. In March of 1845, President Tyler dis- Here is what affidavits and letters from ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS patched Andrew Jackson Donelson to Texas Mr. Horn and Dr. Caldwell tell us: Andrew to try to persuade Sam Houston to support Jackson Donelson, the owner of Tulip Grove, the annexation of Texas by the United where Houston left his walking stick, had TRIBUTE TO TIM CREAL States. Donelson was the nephew of Rachel married a widow of the grandson of Thomas ∑ Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. Donelson. He had served as President Jack- Jefferson. Their son, William Alexander son’s private secretary and in 1856 was nomi- Donelson, inherited many of their Jefferson President, today I wish to recognize nated to run for the vice presidency of the and Jackson items, including the stick. and honor a South Dakotan who has United States. He lived in the plantation Some of these items, including the stick, been a tremendous advocate for rural near the Hermitage, called Tulip Grove. were exhibited at Tennessee’s 1896 centennial education and has shown selfless dedi- Upon reaching Texas, Andrew Jackson celebration. This exhibit was mentioned in a cation to ensuring thousands of stu- Donelson wrote, ‘‘Tell Uncle that Houston Nashville newspaper article in 1927. dents in South Dakota achieved their has disappointed me and not given the an- When William Alexander Donelson died highest academic potential. nexation question the support I expected.’’ these Jackson and Jefferson relics were in- At the close of this school year, Dr. Houston had kept people guessing about herited by his widow, known as ‘‘Miss whether he favored allowing Texas to remain Bettie.’’ In a letter to Ben Caldwell on June Tim Creal will retire from the Custer an independent country, as British emis- 15, 1976, Mr. Horn wrote, ‘‘I knew her several School District, where he has served as saries were arguing. According to one officer years before her death in 1940. [She] told me superintendent for 10 years. Tim began of the Texas Navy, ‘‘When [Houston] was the details of how the cane was split, etc. I his career as an educator in the Faith sober he was for annexation but when he was bought the cane at the sale of her effects School District in 1979. After teaching drunk he would express himself strongly after her death, and had the slight break re- in Faith, SD, he spent nearly 20 years against the measure.’’ paired; and it remained in my possession with the New Underwood School Dis- The next month, in April of 1845, Houston, until I sold it to you.’’ his wife Margaret, and their two-year-old son Mr. Horn sold the stick to Dr. Caldwell and trict, working first as a high school Sam began a trip from Texas to New Orleans Baker Duncan of San Antonio in 1973. math teacher and coach for 10 years. and up the Mississippi River to see 78-year- In a letter to me in 1985 Dr. Caldwell said, He then served as an elementary prin- old Andrew Jackson, who was dying at the ‘‘Mr. Horn proudly displayed the stick in his cipal, special education director, and

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