May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5445 could pass this bill by a date certain. guished Senator from Vermont and I ber of amendments that Senators never As well, staff has been working to clear both know that we have to bring up the have to see. several amendments as part of a man- bankruptcy bill, the Satellite Home The last crime bill took 12 days. agers’ package of amendments, which I Viewer Act, in addition to all these There were 99 amendments. We walked hope Senator LEAHY and I can do. Still, very important issues that involve the through it, and we did it. I remember we have been given no commitment, national defense and our people who being on that committee of conference, assurances, or even a hint that my col- are serving in the Balkan crisis, and, of and the distinguished Senator from leagues will agree to a vote on a time course, the supplemental appropria- Utah may recall that we were there or date certain. This bill is too impor- tions bill. We only have a limited time until 3, 4, 5 o’clock in the morning. tant to be treated this way. The prob- in which to do it. These were complex issues, but we got lem of juvenile crime and the victims So it is good that we get together it done. The crime rate has been com- of juvenile crime deserve better. today and get this matter resolved. I ing down for 6 years—something that I We should pass this bill, but there don’t think we could have had a more have not seen under any other adminis- are a number on the other side who cooperative majority leader, under the tration before—Republican or Demo- want to pull this bill down. You hear a circumstances. We stand ready, will- crat. So we can get somewhere on this. lot of posturing about the gun lobby, ing, and able to work with our col- We have significant issues in here. which is complete nonsense. Let’s just leagues on the other side to try to nar- Every single Member on this side of the review the facts. row these amendments and, of course, aisle is committed to seeing a juvenile The President’s gun package was work with them to try to get some of justice bill passed. We want to go on to framed as essentially containing the these problems solved that they think debate and vote on Y2K. The majority following elements: Gun show loop- are so serious. leader is correct in saying the supple- holes; permanent Brady; one gun a I might add that a number of these mental has to be passed. We are not month; juvenile Brady; juvenile posses- gun amendments were already in the trying to delay it. I assure my friend sion of assault weapons, increase the bill; juvenile Brady is a prime example. from Utah that an enormous amount of age to 21; child access to guns, liabil- We had that already in the bill. You work was done this weekend, and it ity; safety locks; increase penalties for would think, from the President’s re- was done until very late last night. I guns to juveniles; firearms tracing; marks, that it wasn’t part of our bill. think my last e-mail on this came youth crime gun initiative; gun king- We have worked on this bill for 2 years. through to me at about 12:30, 12:45 this pins penalties; and a clip ban. I want it to be bipartisan; I want our morning. We are getting it done. More than half of the President’s so- Democratic colleagues to be part of Now, the distinguished Senator from called ‘‘plan’’ has been acted on by the this; I want them to feel good after it North Carolina has been sitting here Senate or is contained in a pending is all done. We have made every effort patiently and wishes to speak about a amendment. In other words, we have to try to accommodate them. But to lifetime friend, a man who deserves a agreed to a unanimous consent agree- have this thing go on for another day great deal of honor and praise by this ment limiting amendments which al- or two is basically not right, under the Senate from both sides. I think we lows for the remaining elements of the circumstances. would do the Senate well and the mem- President’s plan to be offered. So I hope we can get together, and I ory of the great man well by both of us So the question is, Where is the hope we will work together and get our holding this debate until after the cau- President on this issue? Republicans staffs together, and I hope we will re- cus. I thank the distinguished Senator want to let this plan be voted on, but solve this either today or tomorrow. from North Carolina for his courtesy, his allies in the Senate do not appear I yield the floor. which was doubly helpful this morning eager to move forward. I hope they Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I know because I know this is a difficult time will. the distinguished Senator from Utah for him. I believe my colleague from Vermont would not want to leave a wrong im- I yield the floor. when he says that, given some time pression about what has happened, so f and through the caucuses today, we perhaps I might flesh out his remarks probably can get this resolved, or at just a tad. MORNING BUSINESS least he hopes we can. I do also. We One, it should be noted that every The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under have to get it resolved. single Democratic Senator wants to see the previous order, the Senate will now We are not trying to avoid the gun a juvenile justice bill passed. The com- proceed to morning business for 60 min- issue. I think some are concerned how ments about pulling the bill down have utes, under the control of the Senator this bill, with its reforms of the enter- all come from the Republican side of from North Carolina, Mr. HELMS, for a tainment industry, will be received by the aisle, not from the Democratic side special order in memory of Adm. Bud their friends in Hollywood. That is of the aisle. Nance. something I think really bothers some As far as working on this, I am not The Senator from North Carolina is on the other side. It bothers me, too. sure to what the Senator is referring. I recognized. But we are doing some things that don’t know when I have spent so much f really are valuable, really viable, real- time on the phone, the computer and e- ly worthwhile, and really allow for vol- mails, and on a bill as I have this past TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL BUD NANCE untary compliance and an approach weekend. Our staffs have worked late Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, let me that really will work in the best inter- into the night. We were given a wish take note that members of Adm. ests of the entertainment industry. list from the Republican staff, as was Nance’s family are in the family gal- Given the seriousness of this prob- appropriately done at the beginning of lery. While the rules prohibit my say- lem, and the number of warning signs the weekend. We worked on that all ing anything to them, I think they that future tragedies may be immi- weekend long, calling Senators all over know that our deepest sympathy goes nent—we are announcing them daily— the country on it. As of last night, we to them from us. we cannot afford to filibuster this bill had cleared 40 amendments. That is Mr. President, when I heard the through amendment. We should not progress. That is very significant sound of Dr. Elaine Sloand’s quiet play politics with this bill. Instead, we progress. voice on the other end of the line at should come together and pass this Now, the distinguished Senator from about 3:30 in the afternoon a week ago, bill. I am certainly hopeful that that is Utah said on the talk shows this week- I detected an unmistakable sadness in what we are going to get done either end that they need seven amendments it. I tried to brace myself for the bad today or tomorrow. on the Republican side. Four were in- news that had been expected for a day I think the majority leader has been troduced yesterday, but this morning or so. Dr. Sloand, a wonderful, great, more than accommodating on this. He there are suddenly 10. We have kind of kind and compassionate physician, had has indicated that he can only give so floating numbers here. But the facts done everything within her power to much time to this because there are so are such that we have been working save Bud Nance’s life. Many others at many other pending bills. The distin- and we have cleared a very large num- the National Institutes of Health had S5446 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 also worked against the odds to save nights straight, Bud Nance sat up with ROB CHRISTENSEN: JESSE LOSES A BOYHOOD this great American, the remarkable that kitten, lovingly holding it in his FRIEND retired Naval officer who had fought in arms while, with a teaspoon, feeding a (By Rob Christensen) almost a dozen of the major battles of little bit of warm milk into that tiny They are breaking up Jesse Helms’ old World War II. little fluff of fur. Monroe High School Band. So, Mr. President, when I picked up But the kitten did survive. He named One by one, the members have been going to their reward. Gone is the oboe player, the phone and heard Dr. Sloand’s voice, that kitten Kate. She slept at the foot I knew that James Wilson Nance was Henry Hall Wilson, once chairman of the of Bud’s bed from then on. Chicago Board of Trade and a former U.S. gone. And he was. Mr. President, Dot and I visited Mary Senate candidate. Gone is the cornet player, As I sat at my desk in silence and Lyda Faulk and the wonderful Nance Skipper Bowles, a former gubernatorial can- alone, I recalled the poignancy of Adlai children that night following Bud’s de- didate and the father of former White House Stevenson years ago when he lost the parture earlier in the afternoon. While chief of staff Erskine Bowles. bid for the Presidency: ‘‘It hurts too And last week, the clarinet player, retired we sat in the living room chatting, in bad to smile and I’m too old to cry.’’ Rear Adm. James ‘‘Bud’’ Nance, passed A thousand memories crowded their strolled Kate. She checked each one of away. way into my consciousness as I sat the several of us, but she first went to Which left Helms, the tuba player, fielding there in those few quiet minutes. You Bud’s empty chair. I believe Kate knew condolence calls from the likes of President Clinton and Gov. Jim Hunt. Helms has lost see, Mr. President, Bud Nance and I that her great benefactor and her best friend was gone. his best remaining friend who isn’t named could not have been more than 4 or 5 Dot Helms. years old when we began playing to- Kate was such a lucky little kitten, It’s not just that Nance was Helms’ chief of gether as little boys. On one occasion, just as all the rest of us were lucky to staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Com- he had scarcely had time to get to his have known Bud Nance, to have mittee. Their relationship started in 1921 in home from my house a couple of blocks worked with him, to have had him as a the Union County town of Monroe, where away in our little hometown of Mon- true and faithful friend, a friend whom Jesse and Bud were born two blocks apart, roe, when he was back knocking at the we not only admired, but loved. two months apart. It was Jesse and Bud who used to go to The door. There he stood with his little I ask unanimous consent articles Strand to see Tom Mix westerns. It was hand thrust forward with a toy: about Admiral Nance be printed in the Jesse and Bud who put a ‘‘For Sale’’ sign on ‘‘Here,’’ he said, ‘‘this is yours; I took RECORD at the conclusion of my re- their high school lawn one Halloween. And it it home by mistake and I’m sorry.’’ marks. was Jesse and Bud who would slip behind the Just as the boy, Bud Nance, was There being no objection, the mate- school to sneak a cigarette. unfailingly and impeccably honest, so rial was ordered to be printed in the Jesse was proud of Bud’s Navy career—on the USS North Carolina during World War II, was Rear Adm. James W. Nance dec- RECORD, as follows: ades later when he skippered a series of where he endured 162 Japanese air and kami- [From the Charlotte Observer, May 14, 1999] kaze attacks; Navy test pilot along with U.S. warships, including the giant air- such pals as John Glenn and Alan Shepard; BUD NANCE, MONROE NATIVE WAS AN OFFICER craft carrier, the Forrestal, that had commander of an attack squadron, an air AND A GENTLEMAN more sailors aboard than there were wing and two ships—the USS Raleigh, an people in Bud Nance’s hometown and James ‘‘Bud’’ Nance, who died Tuesday at amphibious ship he skippered off the cost of mine. age 77, was a modest man with a wry, some- Vietnam, and the aircraft carrier USS For- During the past week, there has been times pointed sense of humor. When, at Jesse restal. an almost endless series of friends and Helms’ request, he came out of retirement to As Jesse liked to say, Bud was the Monroe admirers of Admiral Nance expressing direct Sen. Helms’ staff on the Foreign Rela- boy who amounted to something. tions Committee, he was confident enough to their sorrow and their admiration for I first met the admiral deep in the bowels allow staffers to talk to the press on the of the White House, where he was acting na- what I regard as a giant of a man fall- record on a wide range of issues. He offered tional security adviser to President Reagan. en. Needless to say, I have been deeply one caution, he recalled with a smile: that Among his hires were Iran-contra figures grateful to every one of those express- ‘‘If you leak something [secret] to the press, Oliver North and John Poindexter. ing their regrets and their comfort. and I find out about it, I’m going to kill ‘‘I’m the only guy who walked out of the Anybody who has known Bud Nance you.’’ place,’’ Nance would later say, laughing. did not merely like Bud Nance; it is a He grew up in Monroe, where he and the fu- Helms brought Nance out of retirement to far deeper and genuine feeling that so ture senator were playmates and members of become his chief aide on the Foreign Rela- many have held for him. In my case, the same band (Jesse on tuba, Bud on clari- tions staff. net). He graduated from the U.S. Naval Nance, a pretty conservative fellow him- nothing fits but the word ‘‘love’’. I self, cleaned house—ousting some staffers loved Bud Nance like a brother. In my Academy in 1944 and was assigned to the USS North Carolina, which survived attacks by who he thought were veering too far off into final conversation with him 9 days ago, more than 150 Japanese suicide bombers. right-wing conspiracy land. And he advised I told him so. His voice, weak and After the war, he became a Navy test pilot. Helms on a broad range of foreign and mili- raspy, but nonetheless unmistakably It was dangerous work—five of the 10 men in tary matters. Jesse trusted Bud completely. clear, replied, ‘‘I love you, too.’’ one of his test pilot units died in crashes. In recent months, Nance had suffered from Bud loved his family; oh, how he Later he commanded the aircraft carrier myelodysplasia, a blood disease that made loved them. We had often discussed, USS Forrestal, then worked for the Joint him unable to produce platelets. But just a down through the years, his and my Chiefs of Staff and for Gen. Alexander Haig, few days before his death, Nance was still showing up in his office at 7 a.m. good fortunes. He once commented who become President Reagan’s secretary of state. When Admiral Nance became deputy In the end, Jesse and Bud were friends about his dear wife, Mary Lyda, that it again in the Virginia suburbs of D.C.—hun- was she who did the hard part. He used assistant to Mr. Reagan’s national security adviser, the Washington Post said he was dreds of miles from where they started in to say, ‘‘I was away so much of the ‘‘among the most well-connected military of- life. time, and she was back home raising ficers in Washington.’’ Nance once remarked to his friend that our children and raising them right.’’ Helms had better not be the first to die. When Sen. Helms asked him to reshape the To which Helms quipped: ‘‘I’ll kill you if Mr. President, I could go on, but I Foreign Relations Committee staff, he ac- shall not, except for one final vignette, you do.’’ cepted pay only because the law required it— ‘‘I cannot describe the guy because he had which underscores the goodness and $2.96 a week, the congressional minimum. as much character as anyone I’ve ever tenderness of ‘‘The Admiral.’’ After automatic raises bumped it to $4.53, known,’’ Helms said last week. ‘‘He was Some years ago, on a cold and wintry Sen. Helms observed. ‘‘Bud’s worth every thoughtful. He cared about people. He loved night, a kitten was abandoned at Bud’s penny.’’ this country.’’ and Mary Lyda’s front door. It was Bud Nance was an officer, a gentleman and doubtful that the kitten—cold, shiv- an American hero. When he took the Foreign [From the Washington Times, May 12, 1999] Relations post, he said, ‘‘The only thing I’m ering and wet—would survive, but Bud JAMES NANCE, ADMIRAL, HELMS AIDE, DIES AT here for is to do a good job for the United 77 and Mary Lyda produced hot water States, and to make sure Jesse gets a square bottles and a tiny bed for that little deal.’’ His nation, and his old friend, will at- (By Robert Stacy McCain) kitten who was too fragile and too test that, as always, he accomplished his James W. ‘‘Bud’’ Nance of McLean, a re- young to handle solid food. For 2 or 3 goals. tired Navy rear admiral and staff director of May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5447 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, But in an interview last month, Helms [From the Washington Post, May 13, 1999] died yesterday. He was 77. praised the fact that despite his illness, ADM. JAMES ‘‘BUD’’ NANCE DIES; CHIEF OF The committee issued a statement saying Nance beat ‘‘everyone else to work,’’ often STAFF FOR SENATE PANEL—INFLUENCED Adm. Nance died from complications of a un- arriving at the office by 7 a.m. COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JESSE HELMS Senators who worked closely with Nance disclosed illness. (By Louie Estrada) Adm. Nance was a boyhood friend of the said he was a thoughtful man and a tough Foreign Relations Committee’s chairman, staff director. James Wilson ‘‘Bud’’ Nance, 77, a retired Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Repub- ‘‘I trusted him completely,’’ said Foreign Navy rear admiral and former White House lican. Mr. Helms had no public statement Relations ranking member Joe Biden (D– national security affairs adviser who as the yesterday but the committee spokesman, Del.) in an interview this week. ‘‘I cared a Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s chief Marc Thiessen, said Adm. Nance ‘‘was so be- lot about the guy personally.’’ of staff was regarded as a pragmatic influ- loved by so many.’’ Biden added that both he and Helms bene- ence on his childhood friend, Sen. Jesse Adm. Nance graduated from the U.S. Naval fited from Nance’s long experience with mili- Helms (R-N.C.), died of complications from a Academy at Annapolis in 1944. He served as tary affairs. preliminary form of leukemia May 11 at the an aviator in World War II, Korea and Viet- ‘‘He knew the complexities of all this National Institutes of Health. nam, earning two Distinguished Service stuff,’’ said Biden. ‘‘I never had any doubt I Adm. Nance, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Medals. He rose to command of the aircraft could confide in him.’’ Academy and former naval aviator and test carrier USS Forrestal. ‘‘He was a gentleman,’’ said Hagel. ‘‘He was pilot, was a self-described conservative Re- Later he served as assistant national secu- such a complete person. People had tremen- publican who reportedly advised Helms, the rity adviser to President Reagan and joined dous confidence in him, partly because they committee’s chairman, to tone down his Mr. Helms’ staff in October 1991. liked him and partly because they trusted sometimes fiery rhetoric and confronta- Mr. Helms, the ranking Republican mem- him.’’ tional approach when tackling issues. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D–Conn.), a mem- ber of the Foreign Relations Committee at Their close relationship was based on a ber of Foreign Relations, said of Nance, that time, was having problems with his 19- mutual trust that stemmed from their days ‘‘This is just one of the finest people I’ve met member staff and asked Adm. Nance—who growing up in their native Monroe, N.C. Over in my 18 years in the Senate.’’ the years since they played in the same ele- had retired to Virginia—to take charge. Dodd also spoke of Nance’s steady had in ‘‘I was home having a real good time,’’ mentary school band, they periodically kept dealing with the committee’s younger staff- Adm. Nance told a columnist in 1992. ‘‘Jesse in touch. Although the two shared similar ers. called and said, ‘Come on up and help me get political philosophies, Adm. Nance was con- ‘‘He was a wonderful, tempering influence sidered Helms’s opposite in many aspects, control of this zoo.’ ’’ on the young staff,’’ said Dodd. ‘‘I know this Within three months, nine committee coming across as a more courtly hard-nosed is a loss for Senator Helms. I think it’s a real figure with an easy laugh and a loathing of staffers were dismissed. loss for the Senate as well.’’ As a condition of his own employment, the limelight. Nance was particularly close to Helms, He did have critics. A POW group called on Adm. Nance asked that he not be paid, but who brought Nance on board in November Mr. Helms pointed out that federal law re- Helms to fire Adm. Nance because of what 1991 to head up the panel’s GOP staff. Nance they said was the committee’s lack of atten- quired that Senate staffers be paid a min- and Helms were boyhood friends in Monroe, imum of $153 a year. tion to their cause. Still, he was seen as an N.C. affable father figure in Washington’s cor- ‘‘Nobody can ever say Jesse gave his old Nance joined the committee at a time buddy a job,’’ Adm. Nance said. ridors, where colleagues referred to him sim- when its staff was in disarray, and three ply as ‘‘the admiral.’’ When Republicans took control of Congress months after taking the post, Nance fired after the 1994 elections, the GOP pushed At Helms urging, Adm. Nance, who had an nine top aides. illustrious 38-year career in the Navy, joined through a law requiring Congress to abide by ‘‘I felt we had too much overhead and not the committee in 1991 to help improve the the employment laws that applied to U.S. enough operators,’’ Nance told Roll Call in minority staff’s efficiency. Saying the gov- businesses. Along with a minimum wage in- 1992. ‘‘It was difficult for me to see exactly ernment already had done plenty for him, crease passed in 1996, that bumped Adm. who was doing what.’’ Nance’s pay to $204 a week. When he first came on, Nance refused to Adm. Nance accepted the job on the condi- Adm. Nance brought a caustic sense of take a salary. Since federal law required tion that he would work for free. But, as it turned out, laboring without a humor to his Senate job. Shortly after he that Senate staffers receive at least $153 per salary was not an option under Senate rules. joined Mr. Helms’ staff, Adm. Nance was year, Nance accepted that, and after the He was paid Congress’s then minimum of questioning the benefits lavished on U.S. am- minimum wage was increased, his pay $2.96 a week. Later, two cost-of-living pay in- bassadors, including hardship pay. jumped to $204 per week. ‘‘I fought at Iwo Jima,’’ he said. ‘‘That’s Nance, who entered the Navy as a mid- creases bumped his weekly salary to $4.53. hardship.’’ shipman in 1941 and retired 38 years later as Still, he wasted little time with the task put ‘‘He’s like a father figure to his staff,’’ one a rear admiral, saw active duty in World War before him, overhauling the staff by releas- of Mr. Helms’ assistants said of Adm. Nance II, Korea and Vietnam. Nance said that dur- ing deadwood and malcontents, hiring whiz in 1993. ‘‘You just can’t put a price on that ing his service in World War II, he endured kids and shifting old-timers around. kind of wisdom.’’ 162 Japanese air and kamikaze attacks. After the Republicans swept into the ma- Adm. Nance is survived by his wife of 42 Over the course of his Navy tenure, Nance jority in the 1994 mid-term elections, Adm. years, Mary Lyda, and four children. commanded an attack squadron, an air wing Nance was placed in charge of the transition and two ships—the USS Raleigh and the USS on the Foreign Relations Committee and [From the Roll Call, May 13, 1999] Forrestal. His military background had a predicted that Senate members would play a larger role in foreign policy hot spots. He SENATORS FONDLY REMEMBER ‘BUD’ NANCE profound effect on the way he carried himself was coming into the office as recently as last (By Ben Pershing) and on the way he handled the committee’s staff. week, showing up as he did every day at 7 Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has a story he ‘‘When you manage an aircraft carrier, you a.m. and returning to his home in McLean in likes to tell about James ‘‘Bud’’ Nance, the are managing a small city at sea,’’ said the evening. retired Navy rear admiral and Senate For- Hagel. ‘‘It matures one rather quickly.’’ Adm. Nance was no stranger to the com- eign Relations Committee staff director who Nance was born Aug. 1921, in Monroe. He mittee’s workings, having served as a con- died Monday. entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1941 and sultant to the committee during the SALT II Hagel remembers a Foreign Relations spent three years there, earning a bachelor’s deliberations. In 1981, he joined the White meeting where one Senator was droning on degree in 1944. He later spent time at both House as President Ronald Reagan’s deputy and on, ‘‘enjoying his own eloquence.’’ the Naval War College and the National War assistant for national security affairs, and ‘‘After a while,’’ Hagel recalled yesterday, College, and in 1965 he received a master’s in for a brief time, he was acting chief special ‘‘Bud leaned over and whispered in my ear, international relations from George Wash- assistant for national security affairs, tem- ‘Senator, remember, you don’t have to be ington University. porarily replacing Richard V. Allen. eternal to be immortal.’ He said it with that After leaving the military in 1979, Nance As a young man, he attended what is now twinkle in his eye and then he winked at went on to work as assistant national secu- North Carolina State University and grad- me.’’ rity adviser during the Reagan administra- uated from the Naval Academy in 1944. He The exact cause of death for Nance was not tion. He then joined the privates sector, was assigned to the battleship USS North disclosed, although he told Roll Call last working for several years as head of naval Carolina and served there throughout the re- month that he was suffering from systems for Boeing Co. Nance had retired to mainder of World War II. myelodysplasia, a blood disease that ren- Virginia when Helms asked him to come to After the war, he underwent flight training dered him unable to produce platelets. He the Hill. and served as a flight instructor at the Naval was 77. Nance is survived by his wife of 42 years, Air Basic Training Command of the Naval Foreign Relations Chairman Jesse Helms Mary, four children and seven grandchildren. Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. He was as- (R–N.C.), who grew up three blocks from A Senate GOP source said Helms will try signed to exchange duty with the British Nance, had not released a statement on his next week to clear some time on the Senate Royal Navy in the mid-1950s and was a life-long friend by press time yesterday. floor for Members to pay tribute to Nance. project pilot with the Flight Test Division at S5448 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River. quests. Once, when questioning the benefits II deliberations and on President Ronald In the latter assignment, he test-landed air- given to ambassadors abroad, including hard- Reagan’s transition team. With Reagan’s in- craft on carriers. ship pay at some posts, Admiral Nance said: auguration, Nance was appointed Deputy As- Before his military retirement in 1979, he ‘‘I fought at Iwo Jima. That’s hardship.’’ sistant to the President for National Secu- served as the senior naval officer on the staff He had many Navy decorations, including rity Affairs. of the commander of U.S. forces in Europe two Distinguished Service Medals and the He worked in the Reagan administration when Alexander Haig held the combined job Legion of Merit. until 1983, then became a consultant for Boe- of U.S. and NATO commander. He also held After his Navy service, Admiral Nance ing. After retiring again, Nance was per- strategic and planning posts in the Pentagon served for two years on the White House suaded by Helms to join the staff of the Sen- and was commander of the aircraft carrier staff of President Ronald Reagan and later ate Foreign Relations Committee. Forrestal. worked for Boeing in its naval systems de- ‘‘If a ship runs aground it’s the captain’s His military honors included two Distin- partment. fault, and the ship had run aground,’’ Nance guished Service Medals and the Legion of Besides the Naval Academy, he graduated said in explaining some reshuffling at the Merit. from the Naval War College and the National time. He received a master’s degree in inter- War College, and received a master’s degree Nance had asked that he be paid only $1 be- national relations from George Washington in international relations from George Wash- cause his government retirement benefits al- University and attended the U.S. Naval War ington University. ready were enough. But Nance had to receive College and the U.S. National War College. Admiral Nance, who was known as Bud to Congress’ minimum of $2.96 per week. After In the 1980s, he worked for Boeing Military his friends, is survived by his wife of 51 two cost-of-living increases, Nance was Airplane Co., where he was manager of Navy years, the former Mary Lyda Faulk; two forced to take $4.53 per week. systems. sons, James Lee Nance of Richmond and An- ‘‘Bud’s worth every penny,’’ Helms said Survivors include his wife, the former drew Monroe Nance of McLean; two daugh- when he took his salary hike. Mary Lyda Faulk of McLean; four children, ters, Mary Catherine Worth of Atlanta and Nance had been receiving platelet trans- James Lee Nance of Richmond, Mary Cath- Susan Elizabeth Nance of McLean, and seven fusions twice a week at the National Insti- erine Worth of Atlanta and Andrew Monroe grandchildren. tutes of Health. Nance said last month he Nance and Susan Elizabeth Nance, both of When Admiral Nance agreed to go to work had switched to an electric shaver on doc- McLean; and seven grandchildren. for Senate Helms. The Washington Times re- tors’ orders and had to be very careful in ported in an obituary on Wednesday, he handling sharp objects. [From the New York Times, May 15, 1999] asked that he not be paid, but the Senator Helms said he last spoke to his old friend REAR ADM. JAMES NANCE, 77, INFLUENTIAL pointed out that a Federal law required that in the hospital on Sunday. They joked about AIDE TO JESSE HELMS Senate staff members be paid a minimum of old times, Helms said. After Nance died, Helms said, a Capitol po- (By Irvin Molotsky) $153 a year. Once he went to work for the $153. Admiral lice officer stopped to tell Helms how Nance WASHINGTON, May 14—James W. Nance, a Nance said, ‘‘Nobody can ever say Jesse gave had rolled down his window every day to retired Navy rear admiral who took on a his old buddy a job.’’ shake his hand. late-career job as the chief aide to his old Senator Helms, noting that his friend’s pay Said Helms, ‘‘I loved Bud. I shall miss him boyhood friend Senator Jesse Helms of North came out of $2.94 a week, said, ‘‘Bud’s worth dearly.’’ Carolina, died on Tuesday at the National every penny.’’ Nance is survived by his wife, Mary; four Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD. He was children, James Lee Nance, Mary Catherine 77 and lived in McLean, VA. Worth, Andrew Monroe Nance, and Susan BLOOD DISEASE KILLS ‘‘BUD’’ NANCE; RETIRED Marc A. Thiessen, the spokesman for the Elizabeth Nance; and seven grandchildren. ADMIRAL, ADVISER FROM MONROE WAS Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where In lieu of flowers, the family suggests con- LIFELONG FRIEND OF SENATOR Admiral Nance was staff director, said the tributions be made to the NIH Patient Emer- cause was complications of myelodysplasia, (By Norman Gomlak) gency Fund, 10 Center Drive, Room 1N252, a pre-leukemia condition. MONROE.—The way U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms Bethesda, MD 20892. On Capital Hill, Admiral Nance was known saw it, you could’t find a better friend or a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- for having brought order to the committee’s more trusted adviser than James ‘‘Bud’’ ator from Delaware. Republican staff, which Senator Helms, the Nance. senior Republican, and others on the panel The friendship between Helms and Nance Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, I have had found disorganized and riven by ideolog- spanned seven decades, from their days in served since January of 1973 with the ical differences. the band of the old Monroe High School to chairman of the Foreign Relations ‘‘When I came over here, I couldn’t under- the corridors of Capitol Hill. Committee. We have been on opposite stand the organization,’’ Admiral Nance said Wednesday, Helms and others mourned the sides of a lot of issues, occasionally on in a 1992 interview with The National Jour- death of Nance, 77, a retired Navy admiral the same side. I have seen and listened nal after agreeing to come out of retirement who was chief of staff of the Senate Foreign to and been on the opposite end of a year earlier to help his old friend. ‘‘It was Relations that Helms chairs. Nance also had some very powerful and difficult a zoo to me. My military mind has got to served in the Nixon and Regan administra- have all the men and women in line.’’ tions. speeches he has made. But I am pre- Admiral Nance’s role was important then, ‘‘I don’t know of anybody . . . that had as sumptuous enough, know him well when Senator Helms was the committee’s much effect on the country or that had any enough to say until now he has never ranking minority member, and it became higher principles than Bud Nance,’’ Helms had a more difficult time making a more important later, when, after the 1994 said in an interview Wednesday evening. speech than today. elections, the Republicans took control of Helms said Nance, who died Tuesday, suf- There is a reason for that, to state the Senate and Mr. Helms became chairman. fered from a blood disease that prevents suf- the obvious. There is an old expression: Before Admiral Nance was brought in, The ferers from producing platelets. Without You can know a man by his enemies. I National Journal said in its 1992 article, platelets, a person cannot stop bleeding once there had been a movement among the com- cut. suggest you can judge a man by his mittee’s Republicans to remove Mr. Helms as Funeral services for Nance will be held at friends. Anybody who had a man of the their leader because of the minority staff’s 9 a.m. Wednesday at Lewinsville Pres- stature of Admiral Nance love him as disarray. byterian Church in McLean, VA. He will be much as Admiral Nance loved this guy, Mr. Helms accepted Admiral Vance’s rec- buried with full military honors at Arlington means there is something awful, awful, ommendations that eight members of the National Cemetary at 11 a.m. Wednesday. awful, awful good about the Senator staff be fired, and although there was an Helms and Nance were born two blocks and from North Carolina. angry reaction at first, Republican leaders two months apart in Monroe in 1921. At Mon- I am not doing that really to be solic- later said the Vance replacements had roe High school, they played together in a brought order to the panel. school band organized by the principal, Ray itous. I truly mean that and I believe Admiral Nance was born in Monroe, N.C., House. that. The irony of all ironies, as I told where he and Mr. Helms grew up two blocks Nance played clarinet; Helms played tuba. the chairman, on the Friday before Bud from each other. He graduated from the Two years ago, Helms and Nance returned died, the chairman asked him whether United States Naval Academy in 1944 and to their hometown to attend House’s funeral. or not he could come down to my office went on to serve as a naval aviator in World After attending N.C. State College in Ra- to see if we could work out—and we War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam leigh, Nance enrolled at the Naval Academy did, by the way—work out some legis- War. By the time he retired from the Navy in in 1941 and eventually commanded an air- lative language and discuss a nominee. 1979, he had held several commands, includ- craft carrier. He rose to senior command po- ing that of the aircraft carrier Forrestal. sitions in aircraft carrier operations before We sat there with staff—his staff and He became a humorous if caustic reflection retiring as a rear admiral in 1979. mine. Afterwards, the staff left and Ad- of the dour Senator Helms, who seems to Nance served as a consultant to the Senate miral Nance and I sat there for the bet- enjoy saying no to State Department re- Foreign Relations Committee during SALT ter part of 45 minutes, basically asking May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5449 him questions and him telling me sto- I remember two Fridays ago talking had long-since retired and he was 70 ries. to him and him saying—I hope no one years old—a time when most people They were all about JESSE HELMS, his is offended by my saying this—the rea- would choose to take it easy, spend buddy. They are all about the guy he son why we haven’t in the committee time with their wives, their children grew up with and loved. I suspect, one taken the administration to task on and their grandchildren—Bud Nance of the few men or women, other than some of the NATO questions is I know answered the call of his friend, JESSE Mrs. Helms, who has ever been able to how hard it is to get consensus in HELMS, and he came to work for the tell the chairman: Enough, JESSE; slow NATO. I sat there. I was in charge of Foreign Relations Committee. He did down, JESSE; no, JESSE. Senator planning. I know how difficult it is. so not out of a desire for power or HELMS, I don’t think in all the time I He also knew how easy it would have money, to state the obvious. In fact, he have known him, has ever respected been for the committee, under the received only a nominal salary, which anybody as much as he respected Ad- chairmanship of the Senator from at one point, as he enjoyed putting it, miral Nance. North Carolina, to demagog the living amounted to a few dollars per week. It was a wonder to behold, I think my devil out of the targeting questions and That is literally true, by the way—lit- Democratic colleagues would agree whether or not the French and the Ger- erally true. Because of this law we with me, to watch this relationship. It mans and the Brits—he said until you have about double dipping, literally he was almost, I say to my friend from are there and have to get 15 other na- worked for pennies here—full time, 60 North Carolina, like you had an older tions to agree on something, you have hours, 70 hours a week. He worked lit- brother, a brother who loved you and no notion how difficult it is. erally for nothing. guided you and occasionally, like all of To steal a phrase from the chairman, Rather than the dollars, he enjoyed us do when you sort of get off and you this is one little vignette that illus- the work—because of his powerful were going too far or not far enough, trates how, even though he had serious sense of duty to his country and its would whisper in your ear, would put disagreement with the policy of the people and his powerful and palpable his hand on you—I watched him put his President of the United States, he be- loyalty to the chairman of the Foreign hand on your shoulder. It was like he lieved it wasn’t fair play—my trans- Relations Committee. didn’t have to say anything to you. So lation, not his; mine—to take advan- In the last several months, as he all Members on this floor and all Mem- tage of something, that the people struggled with illness—and I might bers watched in wonder and with a wouldn’t understand how complicated point out, for the last year anybody sense of envy the relationship the Sen- it was, but he understood that it was else would have quit. Anybody else ator had with Admiral Nance, and we complicated. It was just simply not fair would have walked away and everyone have an appreciation for how difficult a game to take advantage of it, in addi- would have said: God bless him. We un- moment this is for you. tion to the fact he always thought of derstand. We respect you for your ability to the people who were jumping in the Here is a guy whose hands were lit- pull it off with the grace that you have cockpits of those planes. He always erally beat up because of the trans- fusions, because of the IVs, because of thus far. thought of the people who were over all of the painful way they had to go to Mr. President, I have only on a cou- there putting their lives on the line. ple occasions in 27 years come to the That came from 35 years of experi- get blood. They could not get it out of floor to pay a tribute to a staff mem- ence. It wasn’t merely because he was his veins anymore. They had to go into ber. We have had great, great, great, a good, honorable and decent man his hands and his feet. He came in great staff members who have guided which you will hear more about, be- black and blue—black and blue, barely us all. I think the best kept secret from cause he was. You can ask any of my able to walk. I would say: Bud, what in the heck are you doing here? He’d say: the American people is the incredible colleagues, and I suspect my Demo- We have to get this done. No problem. quality, patriotism, capacity, edu- cratic colleagues will say the same. All I never, never, never heard him com- cational achievement, and personal Bud Nance had to do with me is say plain. I never watched him even wince commitment of the staffs that sit back that this is what we are going to do, knowingly. This is a guy who literally in these chairs behind that rail. It is a and I can absolutely, positively trust it dragged himself in and out of the hos- trite thing to say, but the Nation could as certain, as certain as if my closest pital to show up for work. Instead of not run without them. staff aide said that to me. staying at home, getting the care he I know of no staff member who was The magic of Bud Nance was he made needed in the hospital, he kept the the peer to this fellow, Bud Nance. The each of us feel like he was our staff, staff and all of us focused on the task Senate family and the Nation—it like he was looking out for our inter- at hand. sounds like hyperbole—suffered a loss est. I knew without any question that In my 21⁄2 years as ranking member of when Admiral Nance passed away. if he said something to me, even if the committee, I came to know Bud Since 1971, Admiral Nance has been the there was a miscommunication be- even better than I did the previous staff director of the Committee on For- tween the chairman and Bud Nance, years, both as a professional colleague, eign Relations, serving first as the mi- the chairman would never undercut and, I am presumptuous to say, and nority staff director, and then as the Bud Nance, either that whatever Bud this is presumptuous—as a friend. staff director for the minority under Nance said was going to happen. I was kidding with the chairman the the chairman and senior Senator of You have no—yes, you do, Mr. Presi- other day. I said: You know, JESSE, my North Carolina, Mr. JESSE HELMS. dent. I was going to say you have no mom has an expression. Working in the Senate was some- idea. You do have an idea. Anyone who I will not mention the little girl’s thing of a second career for Admiral serves here has an idea what an incred- name, but I remember as a kid I got Nance. Prior to coming to the Senate, ible, incredible asset that is. If we were picked up second on the bus on a long Admiral Nance spent 35 years in the able to do that, if we had that kind of bus ride to school, about a 35-minute U.S. Navy. A pilot by training, Admiral faith in each other’s staffs, this place ride. Every morning, a little girl who Nance rose to hold several senior com- would move so much more smoothly was not very popular and wasn’t very mand positions on aircraft carriers, in- than it does because so much is nec- attractive, every morning would get on cluding command, as mentioned ear- essarily propelled by staff. the bus. It would be empty and she lier, of the U.S.S. Forrestal and senior During the 1980s, Admiral Nance would sit next to me. Then everyone commands in the Pentagon. He retired served as deputy assistant to President else would fill up the bus by the end. in 1979 with the rank of rear admiral. I Reagan for national security affairs, I would get home and I would say to might note, parenthetically, one of the and in private business with the Boeing my mother: Mom, every morning—I great, great, great, great advantages of Corporation. In 1991, his boyhood will not mention her real name; it was having Bud Nance, with the ideological friend, JESSE HELMS, as the chairman not Sally—Sally gets on the bus and divisions that exist in matters relating has indicated, who grew up in the small sits next to me. All the guys make fun to foreign policy, was that you always town of Monroe, NC, called Bud Nance of me. The girls even make fun of me— knew you would get down to the final to serve his country once again. Al- because Sally was not a particularly question of how it worked. though at the time he got the call he popular little girl. S5450 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 I will never forget what my mother He had that great ability, as the old This is a man who reached the said. My mother said: JOEY, remember saying goes, to see the forest for the heights in the military and, in my one thing. Anybody who loves you, trees. We get lost in the forest. We opinion, reached the heights in the there is only one thing you can do. start numbering the trees. He could Senate as well. When he came on the Love them back. stand back. He would stand back and staff, the staff was reported to be hav- It is real simple. I was kidding the he would say, Look at the whole pic- ing difficulties, and he brought them chairman the other day. I know Bud ture. together, coordinated them, unified Nance loved me because he knew how As I said, I will end where I began. I them, and I think both the minority much I thought of him. He didn’t have have a sense of envy that you, Senator and the majority staffs have worked a choice. He may not have wanted to, HELMS, had the relationship you had. well ever since. It took a true leader to but it was in his nature. He couldn’t re- My dad’s expression is: At the end of do that. turn the affection. So, although I do your days, if you can count one person It took a true leader in Senator not have one one-hundredth of the his- who you can call a true friend, you are HELMS to pick Admiral Nance, and I tory or the relationship that the chair- a lucky man. know he feels highly privileged to have man had with Bud Nance and it seems You are one of the luckiest men that worked with his friend, his colleague, presumptuous for me to call him a I know, Senator. You have had a guy and somebody who advised him in the friend in the shadow of his closest who everyone is honoring, honoring best of ways and advised all of us in the friend in life, I want you to know, Mr. you. best of ways. Chairman, that a lot of us—and you Our profound sympathy and our pray- I express my sympathy to his wife will hear from more—a lot of us took ers go out to his loving wife of 53 years. and his family and tell them that they great personal pride in believing that I don’t know Mary, but I know of her. should be very proud of him, not just Bud Nance liked us. The mere fact that I have heard her name invoked a thou- for the tremendous years of serving Bud Nance liked us in part validated sand times. To Bud’s four children and this country, as he did in the military, what we did here. That is a remarkable his seven grandchildren, to use my as a husband and as a father, but for thing, Mr. Chairman. That is a remark- grandpop’s expression, I say: You got these years on Capitol Hill. It made a able thing to say about any individual. good blood. You got good blood. I am difference to the country, to the world His word was his bond in a literal telling you, remember where you came at large, and to all of us. I thank Sen- from. This guy—your grandfather, your sense. Although he worked for a darned ator HELMS for having given us the op- father—was the real thing. The real Republican, Bud Nance was far from portunity to know him better. partisan. I always wanted to ask him— thing. I yield the floor. I yield the floor. and I never did, JESSE—about back in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. the days when you were a Democrat, I ator from Utah. ENZI). The Chair recognizes the Sen- suspect he was, too, back in those days. Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I will not ator from Maryland. I kind of harbored the illusion in my even try to match the eloquence of my Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, last soul a little bit that maybe—maybe he esteemed colleague from Delaware. But week the Senate lost one of its most still was. I knew he wasn’t, but maybe I would like to just say a few words able and committed staffers; the coun- he still was. about my friend, Adm. Bud Nance, and try lost a brave public servant, a true Mr. HELMS. No. my friend, Senator HELMS, as well. I patriot. Beyond that, with the passing Mr. BIDEN. I always want to say will not be long because I see other of Adm. James W. ‘‘Bud’’ Nance, many Bud, Bud—they are all laughing, all members of the Foreign Relations of us have lost a good friend. the Republican staffers. But I would Committee who are here to speak. I want to touch for just a moment on get back in the subway car and I would I didn’t have the privilege of serving his Maryland connections. Admiral head over here and I would say: You on the Foreign Relations Committee at Nance graduated from the Naval Acad- know, maybe . . . maybe. the same time with Bud Nance. But I emy in Annapolis in 1944, then went off I want to tell you, he was well liked knew him. I respected him. On a Cap- to serve in our Navy in World War II. by every Senator, every staff person. itol Hill that is completely covered He in fact served in World War II, in The guy who is the minority staff di- with more youthful staffers, staffers the Korean war, and in the Vietnam rector, Ed Hall, who is sitting in the who are very young in many ways, not war. back, considered him a close friend. It quite as experienced, Bud Nance stood In the mid-1950s, he was a project was remarkable to watch their rela- out as one of the most senior. He did pilot for the flight test division of the tionship, watch how they dealt with not have to be here. He probably could Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent one another. I haven’t found anybody have enjoyed the remaining years of River, MD, in St. Mary’s County, the who was better liked, more respected, his life much more by not being here. mother county of our State. I simply more fair, or more knowledgeable than But he came to serve side by side with say we were honored to have had his Bud Nance—of all the people with his friend from his youth, Senator presence in our State for an extended whom I have worked. Above all, Bud JESSE HELMS, one of the greatest Sen- period on those two occasions. Nance was—and this is not said lightly; ators who has ever sat in the Senate. Here in the Senate, an institution I don’t often use the word—Bud Nance Admiral Nance was one of the great- sometimes marked by acrimony and di- was a genuine patriot. est people who ever served on the Sen- visiveness, Bud Nance displayed a At all times, he would focus on the ate staff, and he did it at a time when warmth and generosity of spirit. He central question. We would get in- we had a lot of conflicts and difficul- was able to work constructively with volved and we would be arguing, we ties and problems in foreign relations, those on both sides of the aisle to en- would be talking, and Bud Nance al- and he did it with intelligence, with a hance our Nation’s interests. That was ways, always brought us back to the mastery that was important, with an always first and foremost in Bud’s central question: Is this in the interest ability to get along with people and to mind—what served the interest of our of the country? Is this in the interest work with both minority and majority great country. of the country? Because, as we Sen- staffs. Each time I had occasion to work ators know, we can get carried away. This man is a true hero to me and with him, Bud listened to my concerns We believe in what we are doing, but true hero for our country, just the type and responded promptly and fairly. we get invested in what we are doing. of person we ought to all try to emu- Others had the same experience. He We get invested in our position. Some- late, somebody who really loved his fought hard for the principles in which times, although we don’t consciously country enough to give his last for the he believed, but always in a manner do it, in my opinion, we get so wrapped country. I believe he loved his country that commanded respect and admira- up in winning our point that it takes so much because of his family and be- tion. somebody like Bud Nance to say—and I cause of his understanding of what a As the chairman of our committee know he has said it to JESSE; he has great country this is and what a great has indicated, his lifetime friend made said it to me—whoa, wait a minute, constitutional form of government we an invaluable contribution to our Na- wait a minute. Hold up here. have. tion’s policies. May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5451 I was particularly moved by the way length, with a 53-foot beam, and was rated at sioned the ship. After all work was done, the Admiral Nance dealt with his illness. 2,633 tons. She carried 74 guns—32 pounders ship cost the taxpayers $76,885,750. Today, Having had an illustrious 35-year ca- and 42 pounders. She was active until 1839, the sum would be vastly greater. After commissioning, the North Carolina reer in the Navy, he knew how to sur- when she was converted to a receiving ship. She was sold for scrap on October 1, 1867 for had an unusually extensive shakedown, last- mount the gravest challenges and how $30,000. The original figurehead of the ship, a ing several months. During this long ‘‘shake- to maintain strong leadership through- bust of Sir Walter Raleigh was given to the down’’ period, the North Carolina returned out. He demonstrated that once again state of North Carolina in 1909. often to her building yard for adjustments by showing up for work every day with THE CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA—1863–9/27/ and modifications. During this time, New a smile and a vitality that masked 1864 Yorkers, and in particular radio commen- tator Walter Winchell often witnessed the whatever pain and discomfort he may During the Civil War the Confederate great new ‘‘battlewagon’’ entering and de- have felt. Every day he reported for States Navy had an iron-clad sloop named parting the harbor, and began to call her North Carolina. She was 150 feet long, with a duty. Rather than complaining about ‘‘The Showboat’’, after the colorful river 32-foot beam, and carried four guns. She was his own situation, he showed a genuine steamer in a popular Broadway musical. The built in Wilmington, North Carolina, and be- interest in the health and well-being of name has stuck ever since. those around him, and the other staff cause she was structurally weak, never crossed the bar out of the Cape Fear River. ASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS—WAR RECORD members of the committee will recount The ship was active from late 1863 until Sep- POST-SERVICE, 9/1945–6/27/1947 his unfailing courtesies towards each tember 27, 1864 when she developed leaks and On September 5, 1945 the North Carolina fi- and every one of them. sank. nally anchored in Tokyo Bay to pick up a I join my colleagues in offering my THE SECOND NORTH CAROLINA—3/21/1906–9/29/1930 group of about 100 men who had been trans- ferred from her August 20th, to help with the deepest condolences to Bud’s wife of 53 The second U.S. Navy ship to bear the initial occupation at the Yokosuka Naval years, Mary Lyda, and to his four chil- name was an armored cruiser, number 12, Base, near Tokyo. dren and seven grandchildren. The Sen- built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & On September 6, the ship headed for home ate Foreign Relations Committee and Dry-dock Company in Newport News, Vir- via Okinawa (to take on passengers), Hawaii the Senate itself were fortunate to ginia. The keel was laid March 21, 1905, she and the Panama Canal. On October 17, the have had the benefit of his dedicated was launched on October 5, 1906, and was ship arrived in Boston harbor for a hero’s service over the past 8 years. He will be commissioned on May 7, 1908. She was 504 welcome. feet 6 inches in length, with a 72 foot 11 inch Due to post-war disarmament, the battle- remembered fondly, not only for his beam. She displaced 14,500 tons, and had a lifetime of service to this country—ci- ship’s remaining active service was short. In top speed of 22 knots. the summer of 1946 she twice visited the vilian as well as military—but also for On November 5, 1915 she was the first ship Naval Academy at Annapolis to embark mid- his integrity, courage, and grace. in the world to launch an airplane with a shipmen for training cruises in the Carib- Mr. President, I yield the floor. catapult while underway. bean. In October of that year she returned to Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I am not On June 7, 1920, her name was changed to the place of her birth, the New York Navy sure I can adequately thank the Sen- Charlotte to make way for the new super Yard for inactivation. She was decommis- ators for their comments. They know I battleship, number 52. As Charlotte she was sioned June 27, 1947, and placed in the decommissioned on February 18, 1921. Her ‘‘mothballed’’ Reserve Fleet at Bayonne, appreciate them. We are trying to go name was struck from the Navy list on July from one side to the other, and I ask New Jersey, where she remained in obscurity 15, 1930, and she was sold for scrap on Sep- for the next 14 years. the Chair to recognize the distin- tember 29, 1930. In 1960 the Navy announced its intention to guished Senator from Virginia. BATTLESHIP NUMBER 52 scrap the famous battleship, and two famous The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Laid down in 1919, battleship number 52 natives of North Carolina, Hugh Morton and Chair recognizes the Senator from Vir- was to have been called the North Carolina. James S. Craig, Jr., with the endorsement of ginia. This ship was to have been a monster for then Governor Luther Hodges began a cam- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I rise that era, with a displacement of 43,200 tons, paign to bring the ship to North Carolina and to join our colleagues in the Senate to a length of 624 feet, a beam of 105 feet, and a preserve her as a war memorial. provide this record of our recollections speed of 23 knots. Mounting 12 16-inch guns, Thousands of citizens, and countless school the North Carolina and her five planned sis- children contributed money. $330,000 was of this great American who, in service raised to acquire the ship from the Navy and to the Senate and in partnership with ter ships, had they been completed, would have been the largest and most heavily prepare a suitable berth. In September 1961 the chairman of the Foreign Relations armed capital ships of the world at that she was towed from New Jersey, and on Octo- Committee, left his mark. I feel very time. ber 2 she was moored in her present berth humble about it because I was fas- Three years after construction was begun, across the river from downtown Wilmington. cinated in some research that I did on however, the Washington Naval Treaty in On April 29, 1962 she was dedicated as a me- the U.S.S. North Carolina, the battle- 1922 imposed a ten year limit, and new size morial to all the North Carolina men and ship on which he served. restrictions on warships of the era. All work women who served in the war, and in par- I ask unanimous consent to have was stopped, and the hull was sold for scrap. ticular, to the more than 10,000 North Caro- linians who gave their lives in the war. printed in the RECORD reference to the THE CURRENT NORTH CAROLINA: NAVY DAY 10/27/ ASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS OF THE engagements in the closing days of 37–6/27/47 BATTLESHIP NORTH CAROLINA World War II in which this distin- Authorized by an act of Congress on June 3, 1936, the keel of BB–55 was laid down at Prelude to Combat—December 1941–July guished ship participated with Ens. 1942. Bud Nance. the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Navy Day, Octo- ber 27, 1937. This was the first time the Landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi—7–9 There being no objection, the mate- United States had started construction of a August 1942. Capture and Defense of Guadalcanal—16 rial was ordered to be printed in the battleship in 16 years. A few new cruisers and RECORD, as follows: August 1942–8 February 1943. destroyers had been built, but in general, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons—23–24 Au- HISTORY OF THE BATTLESHIP NORTH fleet was old if not obsolete at the time. gust 1943. CAROLINA—BB–55 Ships are not built in a day. As they say, I–19 Submarine Attack: USS WASP—Car- BACKGROUND when you need ships it’s too late to build rier—SUNK, USS O’BRIEN—Destroyer— them. Four years of design work, and three The current Battleship North Carolina SUNK, USS NORTH CAROLINA—Battle- years and eight months went into her con- (BB–55) is the third U.S. Navy ship to bear ship—Damaged—15 September 1942. struction. the name. Her commissioned service lasted a New Georgia Group Operations: New Guin- While building the North Carolina, war little over six years, and only eleven years ea, Rendova, Vangunu Invasion—30 June–31 broke out in Europe, and only four days be- lapsed between the time the ship was author- August 1943. fore her launch Hitler’s divisions occupied ized and she was decommissioned. During Gilbert Islands Operations: Tarawa, Paris. In the Far East, Japan had invaded that short time however, she had quite a Mrakin—19 November–8 December 1943. China, and was threatening further aggres- record, and is now preserved in her original Bismark Achipelago Operations: Kavieng sive moves in Southeast Asia. World War II colors as a memorial to all Strike—25 December 1943. On June 13, 1940, Governor Clyde R. Hoey Marshall island Operation: Invasion of those who gave their lives for freedom. of North Carolina’s daughter, Isabel, to the Kwajalein Atoll, Invasion of Majuro Atoll— THE FIRST NORTH CAROLINA—1818–10/1/1867 strains of ‘‘Anchors Aweigh’’, smashed the 29 January 1944–8 February 1944. The first North Carolina was a ship of the traditional bottle of champagne against the Task Force Strikes: Truk—16–17 February line, built in Philadelphia Navy Yard. The bow and launched the ship. Then, on April 9, 1944, Marianas—21–22 February 1944, Palau, keel was laid in 1818, and the ship was 1941, after completing her fitting-out, Sec- Yap, Ulithi, Woleai—30 March–1 April 1944, launched in 1820. She was just over 193 feet in retary of the Navy Frank Knox commis- Turk, Satawan, Ponape—29 April–1 May 1944. S5452 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 Western New Guinea Operations: were pressed home with fanatical determina- I ask unanimous consent to have Hollandia—21–24 April 1944. tion, despite the most intense antiaircraft printed in the RECORD the very detailed Marianas Operations: Invasion of Saipan— fire. Virtually all Kamikaze attacks ended in briefing that goes behind this, the 11–24 June 1944, Battle of the Philippine flaming violence and death, if only for the Navy’s highest noncombat award, for Sea—19–20 June 1944. pilot crashing into the sea amid a torrent of Leyte Operation: Attacks on Luzon—13, 14, bursting shells and tracers, some of which which he received two. I hope to com- 19–25 November 1944, 14, 15 December 1944. were often wildly and dangerously erratic. plete my research about the first. Luzon Operation: Attacks on Luzon—6, 7 Carriers were always the primary targets, There being no objection, the mate- January 1944, Formosa—3, 4, 9, 15, 21 January but no ships were immune. Once a kamikaze rial was ordered to be printed in the 1945, China Coast—12, 16 January 1945, Nansei was damaged, he usually selected whatever RECORD, as follows: Shoto—22 January 1945. ship was nearest ahead as his target. The SUMMARY OF ACTION Iwo Jima Operations: Invasion of Iwo specter of sudden holocaust created on board Rear Admiral James W. Nance distin- Jima—15 February–1 March 1945, 15, 16 Feb- a ship by a combination of the exploding guished himself by exceptionally meritorious ruary 1945, 5th & 3rd Fleet raids on Honshu bombs and gasoline carried by a suicide service to the United States in a position of & Nansei Shoto—25 February–March 1945. plane instilled fear in the staunchest heart. great responsibility as Assistant Vice Chief Okinawa Invasion—17 March–27 April 1945. Mr. WARNER. In that period of time of Naval Operations/Director of Naval Ad- 3rd Fleet Operations: Bombardment and ministration (AVCNO/DNA) from June 1975 Airstrikes on the Japanese Home Islands—10 I was but a mere radioman third class. thru December 1978. As the principal advisor July–15 August 1945. Aboard a battleship, about the only thing lower than a radioman third and executive to the Vice Chief of Naval Op- INVASION OF OKINAWA (APRIL 1945)—BB–55 class is a bull ensign out of Annapolis. erations (VCNO) and the Chief of Naval Oper- Coincident with the air offensive of Task ations (CNO) for all organizational matters Force 58 against Mainland Japan, other If the Admiral were here, he would re- embracing the Office of the Chief of Naval American forces were closing in for the inva- call those days. Ensigns on battleships Operations (OPNAV), and for all organiza- sion of Okinawa, where the initial landings were almost down in the bilge area. tional echelons under the command of the occurred on 1 April. Three Marine Divisions Nevertheless, he was privileged to CNO, he has demonstrated the highest degree (1st, 2nd, and 6th), plus four Army Divisions serve with that distinguished ship in a of astute planning, detailed knowledge, ex- (7th, 96th, 77th, and 27th) were employed in series of engagements. ceptional managerial skill, and the ability to this operation, the last of the major island I have also found a record of his sec- identify requirements that would compete assaults of the Pacific war. Okinawa was ond Distinguished Service Medal. It is for support in an increasingly austere fiscal needed because it was best located to support interesting. I am searching for the first and personnel resource environment. In this broad area encompassing more than 1250 the planned invasion of the Home Islands of because it is likely that was in my pe- Japan, and because it offered airfields and shore activities, plus all the operating forces anchorages required for that purpose. Task riod of tenure when a radioman third of the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral Nance initi- Force 58 covered the operation, providing air class had become Secretary of the ated and implemented many innovative im- support and fighter defense. Navy, because this one covers the pe- provements which significantly enhanced The NORTH CAROLINA, in company with riod of June 1975 through December of the Navy’s capability and ability to support other fast battleships, conducted a pre-inva- 1978. CNO in carrying out his mission. Astutely sion bombardment of Okinawa from very I want to read these remarks, signed aware of the operational and material ex- long ranges on 24 March; and fired again, in by the then Secretary of the Navy: penditures for the operation of the navy and the complex requirements of Mission and support of a feint landing on 17 April. For exceptionally meritorious service to On 6 April, in the heat of air attack with Program Sponsors in the OPNAV organiza- the Government of the United States— all ships firing, the Showboat was acciden- tion, Rear Admiral Nance was able to relate tally hit by a 5-inch AA Common projectile Rear Adm. James W. Nance, U.S. organizational changes to ongoing efforts, fired at a low-flying kamikaze by a friendly Navy— and to estimate potential costs and effec- ship. The projectile struck the supporting while serving as the Assistant Vice Chief of tiveness with respect to the total navy effort trunk of the secondary battery director (Sky Naval Operations/Director of Naval Adminis- and management decision at hand. He arbi- 2), killing three men, wounding 44, and dis- tration from June 1975 through December trated among the various OPNAV sponsors abling the director. During a lull in the 1978. and technical managers in order to develop a fighting, the dead were buried at sea with In directing the efforts of the vast human convincing and balanced program for the members of the crew sadly bidding their and physical resources of the Office of the VCNO and CNO. As the focal point for all or- shipmates a last farewell in the traditional Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral ganizational matters Rear Admiral Nance solemn rites. Nance displayed the highest order of leader- demonstrated the highest degree of patience, Just before taps that night, the voice of ship, superb managerial acumen, and objectivity, sound judgment, integrity and the Chaplain came over the ship’s public ad- unexcelled initiative. skill in both persuasion and application. dress system with the following prayer: The same qualities, Mr. President, I These traits, coupled with a superior man- ‘‘Heavenly Father, today we committed to say to the chairman of the committee, agement ability, enabled him to overcome the deep three of our shipmates who gave problems and maintain the proper perspec- that he exhibited on the Foreign Rela- tive during frustrating times. All of these their lives so that others may live. We are tions Committee. Isn’t it interesting, particularly mindful at this time of their qualities Rear Admiral Nance has in abun- loved ones at home. Sustain them in their these many years prior thereto, he was dance, and they have been demonstrated sorrow. Help them to understand that those recognized for those qualities? time and again during his tenure as AVCNO/ they love gave their lives for their protec- His keen foresight and perception coupled DNA. tion and care. Be with all the officers and with an extensive knowledge of Navy organi- Rear Admiral Nance initiated and imple- men of this ship. Give all of us heart and zation were significantly instrumental in mented vital improvements in both the pol- mind to serve thee and our country willingly successfully guiding the reorganization of icy and procedural aspects regarding pro- and faithfully. . . .’’ several major realignment programs. posals for the establishment, disestablish- The NORTH CAROLINA, with Task Force ment, and modification of shore activities Did he not do some reorganization and of fleet activities of the Operating 58, was in the thick of the fighting around for you, Mr. Chairman? Okinawa for a total of 40 days before being Forces. Rear Admiral Nance has displayed a Utilizing dynamic leadership, keen admin- ordered to withdraw for repairs to her battle flair for discovering organizational incon- istrative ability, and steadfast perseverance, sistencies. In each instance he instinctively damage. During this 40-day period, hundreds Rear Admiral Nance managed the Navy’s recommends the best solution. In these rec- of kamikaze attacks were launched against massive organizational network in a note- ommendations he exhibits a uniqueness in naval units operating in the vicinity of Oki- worthy manner, thereby enhancing the shore looking at each proposal from the whole De- nawa, and a total of 73 ships were crashed by establishment’s support to the fleet. Addi- partment of the Navy standpoint and not a them. Of these, 20 were sunk or so badly tionally, he personally initiated and imple- more restrictive and narrow aspect of pro- damaged they had to be scuttled, and 22 were mented important improvements in both gram sponsors. His efforts in maintaining damaged to the extent that repairs would procedural and institutional aspects of the strict compliance to the Secretary of De- not be completed before the war was over. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and, fense (SECDEF), Secretary of the Navy However, for every Kamikaze pilot who suc- by personal attention, example, and vigorous (SECNAV), and the direction and decisions ceeded in crashing one of our ships, there advocacy, he provided positive leadership in regarding the reduction of operational ex- were scores shot down by our fighters and the area of Equal Employment Opportunity. penditures and for providing better utiliza- ship’s gunners. Rear Admiral Nance’s distinctive accom- tion of limited manpower resources, while REFLECTIONS ON THE KAMIKAZES plishments, unparalleled effectiveness, man- still maintaining the highest degree of effec- A Kamikaze attack, as witnessed by a po- agerial expertise, and tenacious devotion to tiveness and efficiency, have contributed sig- tential victim, can be ranked among the duty reflected great credit upon himself and nificantly to the United States Navy. most frightening experiences in the history were in keeping with the highest traditions Directly responsible for the management of modern warfare. As a rule, such attacks of the United States Naval Service. of an annual budget of approximately 400 May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5453 million dollars, over 16,000 military and ci- of the many reductions already applied to ulations prepared to analyze strategic and vilian personnel, and approximately 200 com- OPNAV and those areas where a reduction general purpose force capabilities relevant to mands within the CNO claimancy, Rear Ad- could be imposed. The application of his national security decision-making at the miral Nance has demonstrated unique abili- knowledge made it possible to develop a highest level. ties in management of these resources. Con- presentation which obtained the SECNAV’s By his outstanding leadership, superior stantly aware of the worldwide inflation and support for an effort to stem the shrinking of judgment, and inspiring devotion to duty, its adverse effects on the CNO claimancy and the OPNAV staff and permit the staff to Rear Admiral Nance reflected great credit the national priorities, Rear Admiral Nance meet its responsibilities. The required reduc- upon himself and the Organization of the fostered and encouraged strong leadership, tion was effected with minimal disruption Joint Chiefs of Staff, and upheld the highest professional skills, and force in fiscal and and was superbly balanced among military traditions of the United States Naval Serv- personnel management. Whether involving and civilian positions. In subsequent years ice. the more than 125 activities for which the additional personnel reduction actions were FOR THE PRESIDENT, CNO provides direct Operation and Mainte- directed. Rear Admiral Nance, after review- JOHN H. CHAFEE, nance Navy (O&MN) appropriation financial ing the OPNAV staff, its requirements and Secretary of the Navy. support or the more than 90 activities for the requirements of the SECDEP, estab- Mr. DODD addressed the Chair. which the CNO is the civilian manpower lished an OPNAV Support Activity. This The PRESIDING OFFICER. The claimant, Rear Admiral Nance consistently component organization satisfied SECDEP’s Chair recognizes the Senator from Con- and aggressively sought improvements in all requirements for the reduction of Navy De- necticut. areas. Included in activities supported in the partment Headquarters since those personnel CNO claimancy are such diversified com- Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I join my not involved in Navy-wide policy making colleagues in expressing our condo- mands as CINCPAC, CINCLANT, SEATO were assigned thereto. This fresh approach Military Headquarters, MAAG China, all the developed by Rear Admiral Nance prevented lences to the Nance family. As Senator Navy Sections in the MAACs in South Amer- the crippling of the OPNAV staff’s capability HELMS has pointed out, there are a ica and Europe, USN Member SHAPE Head- to perform its mission. number of them gathered today in the quarters, Naval Observatory, all the District Senate gallery to hear these tributes. Commandants, COMUSJAPAN, Commander Mr. WARNER. But the interesting thing is the direct parallels between, I cannot help but think what Bud Iceland Defense Force, most of the major Nance would think about a lot of this Mr. Chairman, what he performed in Naval Support Activities in CONUS, all language out here. I imagine that I Legal Service Offices worldwide, NAP Wash- the Navy in 1974 and what he performed would see a twinkling in his eye. He ington, COMOPTEVFOR, Board of Inspection in the Senate in 1994. When I spoke of might think we are getting excessive— and Survey, the Vice President’s quarters him as ensign, I heard on the floor of to describe it politely. I do not think and Presidential helicopters, just to name a the Senate a little chuckle from a few. you can get excessive when talking former ensign who is over there now Rear Admiral Nance set realistic standards about someone of the human quality preparing to address the Senate. I am for the management and administrative per- that Bud Nance possessed. formance of these field commands and ac- sure he might expand a little bit on the The reason you are seeing this bipar- tivities in such areas as management poli- relationship between an ensign and the tisan demonstration here today is be- cies, procedures and controls, organizational higher officers. I see him busily going structure, position structure, staffing and cause I never knew what Bud Nance’s over his notes over there. politics were. I had my suspicions be- delegation, management systems and related But I say to my distinguished col- management practices. In these areas, and cause he was working with the chair- league from Massachusetts, we should while servicing as resource and executive man of the committee, but I never de- conclude these remarks by saying: An manager for the CNO, he made significant tected an ounce of partisanship in any officer and a gentleman—a phrase contributions. Since the aforementioned ac- approach he ever made to a Member of known in the U.S. Navy. My distin- tivities under the CNO claimancy are unique this body or members of the staff on ei- in that they have no Systems Command or guished colleague from Massachusetts ther side of the aisle. Bureau sponsorship and are administered earned that title, as did Admiral centrally under the CNO, they prove to be a It is a great tribute to his human Nance. qualities that he saw issues as they major undertaking. Management of these ac- I thank the Chair and thank my dis- were—either right or wrong—or ways tivities is further complicated by the diverse tinguished colleagues. programs represented in their missions. in which to get a job done to move a I ask unanimous consent that the Through Admiral Nance’s direction and lead- bill forward. Throughout that process, Distinguished Service Medal citation ership, the quality and level of services has which too often brings out acrimony in be printed in the RECORD. been enhanced, and services in such areas as people, Bud Nance seemed to attract property maintenance, personnel services, There being no objection, the mate- and services to tenant commands have been rial was ordered to be printed in the the better angels in all of us. And it is that wonderful quality that he pos- greatly improved even though funds and per- RECORD, as follows: sonnel have been reduced over the years. As THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, sessed that I admired so much. I came an example of the concern for real property Washington, DC. to really respect and enjoy this man’s facilities, during Fiscal Years 1976 through The President of the United States takes wonderful company over too brief a pe- 1978 the CNO claimancy allocated resources pleasure in presenting the Distinguished riod of time. for the maintenance and repair of real prop- Service Medal to Rear Admiral James W. We lost a great friend and a wonder- erty in a proportion to its backlog of mainte- Nance, United States Navy for service as set ful member of the Senate family a few nance and repair that exceeded by over 50% forth in the following citation: For excep- days ago. Many of us knew Bud Nance the same ration for the entire Navy shore es- tionally meritorious service to the Govern- tablishment supported by the O&MN appro- ment of the United States in duties of great simply as ‘‘the admiral.’’ He was 77 priation. responsibility from January 1970 to January years young. That is not a polite ex- Rear Admiral Nance assumed his duties at 1972, while serving with the Organization of pression. Up until his last illness, he a time when a major reduction in force had the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Deputy Director had great vitality. And I admired him. been directed. Confronted with this directed for Operations, National Military Command Less than a week before he passed reduction of 12% in manning in OPNAV he Center, Operations Directorate, and as Chief away, I saw him here in the staff gal- approached the task with a unique freshness of the Studies, Analysis, and Gaming Agen- lery. I went over and talked to him. I which rallied the support of all concerned. cy. admired his tenacity. In spite of all Apportioning these reductions to the varied As Deputy Director for Operations, Rear offices within the OPNAV would be no small Admiral Nance was responsible for moni- that he was going through at the hos- task. He personally conferred with each of toring the worldwide political/military situ- pital, transfusions and all the rest, he the Deputy Chiefs of Naval Operations ation on an around-the-clock basis, acting as remained determined to be here and de- (DCNOs) and the Directors of Major Staff Of- personal representative for the Secretary of termined to be involved. fices (DMSOs) reviewing their mission and Defense; the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; It is a great lesson for all of us that staffing. Gaining immeasurable information the Director, Joint Staff; and the Director we should live life to the fullest. He and knowledge of each of these complex or- for Operations. He was particularly adept in certainly did. The loyalty that many ganizations provided him with much of the handling the many events, incidents, and members of the Senate and the staff, data he required preliminary to directing re- sensitive operations of national interest in- many of whom are here today, felt to- ductions. The knowledge gained during this volving the highest governmental authori- tremendous and time consuming effort and ties. ward Bud Nance should be noted as his years of experience enabled him to deter- In his capacity as Chief of the Studies, well. mine those areas where critical manning de- Analysis, and Gaming Agency, Rear Admiral Both sides of the aisle respected Bud ficiencies were already developing as a result Nance masterfully directed studies and sim- Nance enormously. We were extremely S5454 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 fond of him personally. All of us who friendship at the young age of 4 or 5 and you look back, I think there are had the honor of knowing him are years of age that lasted to Bud’s pass- really at least three things you hope deeply saddened to hear of his passing. ing says wonderful things about both of for: a good name, good friends, and, I express my condolences to his wife these individuals that they sustained hopefully, a little good fortune. But and children and grandchildren as well. that friendship over these many, many very important on that list is good As has been noted, he was the staff years. friends. director of the Senate Foreign Rela- For me personally, I say to the chair- I have had the privilege of having tions Committee. He took over the man, every day it was a pleasure to some great friends, going back to my stewardship of the committee in 1991. work with Admiral Nance. He was can- childhood days at Duck Hill, MS, peo- He was summoned out of retirement, as did. He was straightforward. He always ple I still stay in touch with from high has been noted over and over again tried to do what he believed was in the school and college years. We still get here by the chairman of the com- best interest of our country. He was together. In less than 2 weeks, we are mittee. It is not the first time that the truly a patriot. That word too often is all going to be together at the mar- admiral had worked for the Foreign used to describe too many people, but riage of my daughter. My friends from Relations Committee. in this case it happily applies to Bud high school and college will be there. I Back in 1979 and 1980, he had served Nance. know that when you are in the greatest as a special consultant to the minority He was 77 years old and a veteran of need of comforting, the greatest need staff on the SALT II deliberations. several distinguished careers. And he of counsel, there are few friends that Over the years, many Senators con- was tapped by Senator HELMS to take you turn to. sulted with him on matters related to over the helm of the committee. Of So we have had this unique relation- strategic arms treaties. He was truly course, he had a wonderful and distin- ship with Rear Admiral James W. an expert in this area. When his won- guished career in the Navy, as was ‘‘Bud’’ Nance and our beloved chairman derful friend, his lifelong friend, and noted by the Senator, and others. He of the Foreign Relations Committee, our friend, JESSE HELMS, called him up grew up in North Carolina, attended the senior Senator from North Cali- in 1991, seeking his help in reorganizing North Carolina State, enrolled in the fornia. He was born in Monroe, NC— the committee, the admiral did what U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval War most folks probably have never heard he had always done—he showed up College, and specialized in world gov- of it, or certainly have never been ready for duty. He had retired to Vir- ernments and strategic planning. He there—a small town, one block from earned a master’s degree at George ginia sometime before, but he could the home of JESSE HELMS. I wonder not say no. He accepted the challenge; Washington University. He had many how many blocks there are in Monroe— and we are all the better because of it. wonderful accomplishments. But the probably not many. But this son of the In fact, he was excited to take on an- most important quality of all was he South from North Carolina went to the other challenge. was just a wonderful human being, and Naval Academy, a 1944 graduate. He Some of you may know that the ad- all of our lives are enriched because he was a gunnery officer on the U.S.S. was a part of our lives. We are going to miral had initially refused to take any North Carolina at Iwo Jima. He was a miss him. salary. This is something of which not combat pilot in Korea and Vietnam. He many Americans are aware. But there The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair recognizes the majority leader. was a test pilot. He was commander of are people around here who do work be- Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I thank the the U.S.S. Raleigh, a cruiser, and com- cause they believe in the work they are Senator from Connecticut for his very mander of the U.S.S. Forrestal, one of doing. Admiral Nance was one of those kind and heartfelt comments. I know our great carriers in history. individuals. He insisted he should not Senator HELMS appreciates it very I had the pleasure one time of land- be paid lest someone think there was much also. ing on the deck of that carrier. It was an appearance of impropriety. Of In case it hasn’t been announced, I a tremendous experience. My attitude course that never crossed anyone’s want all Senators to be aware that Ad- ever since has been: I have done that. I mind. The words ‘‘impropriety’’ and miral Nance’s graveside services will don’t want to do it anymore. ‘‘Bud Nance’’ just would not fit in the be at Arlington National Cemetery at To be commander of that great vessel same sentence, page, or book. He was a 11 a.m. on Wednesday, tomorrow. For is the height of success in many peo- person of impeccable integrity. any Senators who would like to be ple’s lives. But he went beyond that. Eventually, the two friends had to there and participate, I am sure it will He went on to be Deputy National Se- compromise, as I am told, on minimal, be a beautiful and appropriate cere- curity Adviser in the Reagan adminis- symbolic compensation in order to mony. tration. And then, of course, for the comply with Federal laws. Bud Nance I served 4 years as a staff member on last 6 years, he was staff director of the would also not want to be in violation the House side, working for the chair- Foreign Relations Committee. of Federal laws. So there was a sym- man of the Rules Committee. Now I His wife, Mary Lyda, and their two bolic compensation that became Bud’s have served 26 years in the House and sons—I know Phil—are grateful to have salary. the Senate. I have a very enduring ap- had this man as husband and father. At any rate, Senator HELMS and the preciation for the importance and the We all have been enriched and are bet- admiral belonged to a mutual admira- loyalty, the dedication and the fine ter off because of his service to our tion society. All of us became associate service that we receive from our staffs, country and to this institution and to members of this wonderful friendship both in this Chamber, in our com- his friend. that these two individuals shared. Bud mittee work, and on our personal Bud Nance, sailor, public servant, pa- Nance had an excellent relationship staffs. triot. God rest his soul. with the chairman, as all of us know, Admiral Nance was one of those I yield the floor, Mr. President. based on their deep loyalty to one an- unique staff members, though, who had The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- other, deep appreciation of each other’s a very close personal relationship, be- ator from Massachusetts is recognized. talents, abilities and sense of char- yond a normal staff relationship, with Mr. KERRY. I thank the Chair. acter, and deep friendship that goes the chairman of the committee, but Mr. President, with sadness but with back to childhood. also with a lot of Senators. When I first great pride, I join my colleagues today We make friends in our lives through came to the Senate, I found myself to mark the passing of a remarkably the various phases of our travels in more than once back in the back room patriotic and—I think everyone would this world, but there is no friendship seeking the advice and counsel of Ad- agree—extraordinarily committed pub- that is more enduring or more deeply miral Nance, and he always took the lic servant. appreciated than one that begins in time to try to explain the situation Rear Admiral James ‘‘Bud’’ Nance childhood and carries on through life. and try to make clear what was in the devoted his entire life to serving his That does not happen often, but when country’s best national interests. And country, to public service. That was it does it is a unique relationship. so I feel a personal sense of loss. made up, as we have heard, of a re- The fact that Bud Nance and my When you go through life and then markable 35 years in the U.S. Navy, 2 great friend, JESSE HELMS, had this you sort of get to the end of your road years as Deputy Assistant for National May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5455

Security Affairs under President I consider myself privileged to have to both Bud Nance and JESSE HELMS, Reagan, and then, as we heard our col- worked very closely with Admiral not just as public servants or as part- leagues recount today, great years of Nance when Senator HELMS was a ners in a public endeavor, but as pri- service here in the Senate, years where member of the Senate POW–MIA com- vate people, as human beings. all of us know he didn’t have to serve. mittee, which I then chaired. I will al- Modern politics is not kind to per- He could have chosen any number of ways be grateful to him for his very sonal lives, to private lives. It is some- other courses for his life, but right up steady support during that difficult times easy to lose sight of the impor- until the end, he stood watch. and highly emotional time. He under- tance of those friendships in this city, He earned, as we have heard, two Dis- stood the importance of dealing with and that is why I think it is so impor- tinguished Service Medals in all of the that issue head-on, regardless of par- tant, in part, to recognize the full campaigns that were listed by my col- tisanship or political consideration, measure of the friendship they shared. leagues. One of the things for which I and understood as well as anybody, be- I don’t remember all of the words, personally—and I am sure Senator cause of his years of service, the need but there is a wonderful poem by Wil- MCCAIN will join me—express the to begin to heal the wounds of war that liam Butler Yates that speaks about greatest respect was his service as still divided this country. the glory man shares here on Earth, skipper, commander of the U.S.S. For- His participation with Senator but in the end he calls on us to hope restal, which our colleague, Senator HELMS and the work of that committee that every individual would say: And MCCAIN, has very close ties to. I served was a great service to this country. so my glory was I had such friends. one of my tours of duty in Vietnam at The admiral and I also worked closely Really, that is glory in itself, that he the Gulf of Tonkin, as we did a lot of together during the 6 years that I was had a friend like Bud Nance. search and rescue work with pilots and privileged to have the responsibility as Mr. President, this is a city marked occasionally were doing guard duty chairman, and then ranking member, by transients. People come and people right behind the carrier, so I became of the International Operations Sub- go. But Adm. Bud Nance was forever intimately familiar with carrier oper- committee for the State Department proud that his service here was, in ations. authorization bill. I know that Bud many ways, neither ephemeral or tran- I think anybody who has ever been on Nance believed it was more than just sient. It was a tireless service to the a carrier, those 5,000-person floating another bill. To him, it was a reflection country, the Senate, stellar leadership cities, understands the extraordinary of our priorities in a global strategic in the Senate Foreign Relations Com- leadership skills that are necessary to sense, which he understood so well. So mittee, and lifelong devotion to coun- keep everybody in those close quarters it wasn’t just a substantive issue to try. It defines patriotism. He will be working at the pace they work under— him; it was also an institutional issue, greatly missed, but he will also be re- the intense, stressful combat situation and he cared about that. He cared membered very fondly by all of us who in which they work. It is a remarkable about the Senate prerogatives, he knew him and remembered him as a tribute to this man that he rose to that cared about the committee priorities good man who made no secret of his level and, indeed, performed those re- and prerogatives, and he shared that love of family, love of friends, and love sponsibilities with such distinction. concern with all of us. of country. He epitomized the best of I first met him, obviously, when he Although we found much to agree on, what can come from our Nation’s cap- came here, in 1991, and he became the we obviously sometimes disagreed. ital and from the country itself, as well Republican staff director for the Sen- But, boy, I can tell you it was never as the best of what our foreign policy ate Foreign Relations Committee. Be- with anything except the deepest sense can be. We will miss him today, but so lieve me, it became evident very quick- of respect and understanding for the much more so, we honor his legacy and ly how fast he was going to be sort of substance of another person’s position. his memory. the glue that helped to bring people to- Even throughout those disagreements, Mr. HELMS addressed the Chair. gether and keep them together. Every- I always knew I could talk to Bud The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- body here will remember the great Nance and he was going to give me a ator from North Carolina is recognized. smile, the constant twinkle in his eye, fair hearing, and, working with Sen- Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I thank and the wonderful kind of calm that he ator HELMS, he was going to do his best the Senator. I am touched by all of had about him. Literally, I think 5 to resolve those differences. these remarks. I hope the Chair will days or 6 days before he passed away, We all know the degree to which Bud recognize Senator MCCAIN next. But clearly without any inkling on our part Nance was a devoted public servant. before he does, I want to make a point that that might happen so suddenly, we But of greater meaning and of greater that Bud Nance said many times how were down in Senate Foreign Relations consequence to him, surely, Bud Nance much he admired Senator MCCAIN’s fa- room 116 dealing with a number of was a devoted husband and father. We ther. With that, I hope the Chair will issues. I went over to sit beside him have heard others talk of the wonderful recognize Senator MCCAIN. and seek his counsel on something. As marriage that he had to Mary Lyda for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- was his manner, he sort of patted me 53 years. Together they had four chil- ator from Arizona is recognized. on the knee in a calm way and said: I dren. I simply want to take this oppor- Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I thank think we can take care of that; we can tunity to extend my condolences to my dear friend from North Carolina for take care of that. them and to their families for their the love and friendship he bestowed on That is the way he worked. He en- loss. Bud Nance for many, many years. It is joyed the give and take. He loved the It is also very hard to think about a rare thing—the relationship that ex- responsibility. He loved the Senate. Bud Nance without obviously thinking isted between my dear friend from And most of all, he clearly loved his about the special relationship he had North Carolina and Adm. Bud Nance. It country which he served so diligently. with his closest friend and our col- was a relationship characterized by Not only did he have the confidence league, Senator HELMS. I will always mutual respect, political courage, and and friendship—a very, very special fondly remember the many stories that love and affection, which is, as the pre- friendship—with Senator HELMS, but Senator HELMS shared with us in the vious speaker mentioned, somewhat he also approached the job with pure Foreign Relations Committee and here rare in this town—although not as rare professionalism, with fierce determina- on the floor about two young tykes as some would think. tion, and great skill. Surely he was al- growing up within streets of each other Bud Nance was not only a friend of ways committed to advancing the val- and spending literally their lives to- my father’s, he also served under my ues and belief system—such a strong gether, even when they weren’t to- grandfather in World War II. Mr. Presi- value system and belief system—of gether. No one could ever doubt the dent, there is a book that has been No. Senator HELMS. Their priorities were strength of the bond between them or 1 on the best seller list for a long time. the same. But he also was every bit as the personal loyalty they felt toward The title of that book is ‘‘The Greatest committed to working out even the one another over so many years. This Generation,’’ written by Tom Brokaw, most contentious issues on a bipartisan was really a rare friendship. That it a man known to all of us. It is one of basis. has a marvelous endurance is a tribute the more moving books I have read in S5456 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 a long time. It chronicles the personal Senator HELMS and I are not exactly confident in his faith and comfortable experiences of those of the generation in agreement on most issues, and Ad- in his accomplishments. Rather, he was that fought and won World War II and, miral Nance and I weren’t in agree- concerned about the imminent dangers indeed, did make the world safe for de- ment on most issues, but I tell you our country faced in the Balkans and mocracy. It contains very moving sto- something, I came to love that man elsewhere: ries. The impact of those stories gives and I will never forget him. I agree What does bother me, Senator, is I am ex- us a renewed and indeed, perhaps, an with what everybody has said about his tremely worried about our country. In 1939, I unappreciated recognition of the serv- impact on the Senate. did not register for the draft for World War ice and sacrifice of that generation, I think it started a couple of years II. The reason I did not register was because ago; I would be walking with a bad they already had me . . . Everywhere we what they went through, what they look around the world things are bad—Bos- achieved, and the reality that they knee and Bud would ask me how I was doing. We would start talking, and nia, Kosovo, Iraq, India/Pakistan (nuclear really did make not only the world safe testing), North Korea, Latin America is for democracy, but make it possible for then we would talk more. It came to stewing in drugs, et. al. We should remember future generations to live much better the point, Senator HELMS, where I just what Charles DeGaulle said, ‘‘There are no lives in a broad variety of ways. decided—I never had a chance to know friends in international politics.’’ We have Bud Nance was of the greatest gen- the admiral in the same way Senator countries that respect us; countries that fear eration and he was one of the greatest HELMS knew him as a dear friend, or us; and countries that hold us in contempt. I see too many cases where we are held in con- Americans to serve in the greatest gen- the way some of my other colleagues have known him over the years—I just tempt. We have to do better internationally. eration. In fact, his service spanned reached the conclusion that this was a Bud wrote to me, with his char- three wars, and in all of them he served man I really believed in. I hope and acteristic modesty, ‘‘In the roughly 60 with distinction and courage. pray he felt the same way about me. years that I have been with the govern- I believe that Bud Nance epitomized I think he represented the very best ment in both the executive and legisla- in the Senate all the best we see in peo- of treating people well, the best of tive branches I have always tried to ple who serve the Nation. Unfailingly being willing to stand up for what you make our country a little safer and a courteous, always considerate to oth- believe in, the best of patriotism, the little better.’’ This, rhetoricians will ers, he took into consideration with best of public service. As far as I am tell you, is understatement. If I may equal weight and gravity the views of concerned, there are certain people you paraphrase General Robert E. Lee, Bud those on the other side of the aisle. meet whom you never forget. They are did his duty in all things. He could not And although perhaps in disagreement, with you for the rest of your life. I cel- do more. And it’s obvious he never he always treated those views with the ebrate this man’s life. In all the work wished to do less. respect and consideration they de- I will get a chance to do as a Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. The served. or as a teacher, or whatever I do, I will Chair recognizes the Senator from Obviously, as has been mentioned, always try—I will never succeed—to North Carolina, Mr. EDWARDS. the relationship between the two men live up to Bud’s example. Mr. EDWARDS. Thank you, Senator was remarkable and unusual. But it Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I rise HELMS, for allowing me to speak today was also remarkable and unusual that, to pay tribute to Rear Admiral James in a tribute to an extraordinary North in all the years that I saw Bud Nance W. Nance, a gentleman and a patriot. I Carolinian, Adm. Bud Nance. here, never once did I see him lose pa- will leave it to others to talk about I found Senator MCCAIN’s poem very tience with anyone. His courtesy was Bud’s accomplishments in the Navy, at moving and very touching. I know Bud unfailing, and, frankly, he represented the White House, in the private sector Nance was an extraordinary friend to what we know of as the greatest gen- and in academia, and here in the Sen- my senior Senator, who has been an ex- eration in more ways than just having ate. They are legion. I wish to high- traordinary friend to me since I have served in combat and risked his life for light the central role he played in as- been here in the Senate. They grew up his country in three wars. sisting the Commission on Protecting together. I think they were born a cou- Mr. President, when I think of Bud and Reducing Government Secrecy, ple of blocks away from each other, Nance, as I always have, as we not only which I chaired. Senator HELMS was a over in Monroe, NC, and even a couple mourn his passing but celebrate his Commission Member. Bud understood of months apart, if I am not mistaken. life, I could not help but be reminded of the importance of keeping some se- The things that Bud Nance did with what is one of my favorite poems, writ- crets. But he also understood that ex- his life are the things we would strive ten by Robert Louis Stevenson, who cessive secrecy is a mode of regulation. for all of our children to do. He spent also had an incredibly unusual life of The most pernicious mode, really, his life in service of this country. Hav- adventure, with great and vast experi- since we don’t know what we don’t ing attended the Naval Academy, hav- ences and great contributions. Robert know. It is a fitting tribute to Bud, his ing gone on to rise to prominence as an Louis Stevenson wrote a poem that he wisdom, and his talents that the Com- admiral in the Navy, having served on wrote for his own epitaph called ‘‘Req- mission unanimously issued its report the U.S.S. North Carolina, and then, uiem,’’ which I believe also fits our containing recommendations for pro- after retirement, when most people dear friend, Bud Nance. tecting and reducing government se- would go on to spend time with their The poem is a very simple one: crecy. family and children, he went to his sec- Under the wide and starry sky. Bud battled his illness gallantly, ond career, which was working for his Dig the grave and let me lie. which is no surprise. His death from great lifelong friend, Senator HELMS, Glad did I live and gladly die. that illness is no surprise, either, but it on the Foreign Relations Committee. And I laid me down with a will. hurts nonetheless. We who were privi- While I did not know Bud Nance inti- This be the verse you gave for me: leged to know Bud will miss him. The mately the way the Senators who have Here he lies where he longed to be; country will miss him. spoken knew him, I have to say, when- Home is a sailor, home from the sea. He and I were frequent correspond- ever I went to Senator HELMS for ad- And the hunter home from the hill. ents. His last letter to me, from last vice—which seemed to be often—on Mr. President, I yield the floor. October, is characteristics. He wrote, issues of foreign relations, the very The PRESIDING OFFICER. The As I mentioned in a discussion we had sev- first thing he would say to me is, you Chair recognizes the Senator from Min- eral months ago, I have myelodysplasia, or need to talk to Bud Nance. I know how nesota. smoldering leukemia. I have had all the ex- much he relied and depended on Bud Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I perimental treatments they do out at NIH without success. At present, I am living on Nance. say to my colleague from North Caro- transfusions. This problem does not worry I might add, aside from the fact that lina, I was thinking to myself that one me in the slightest because I have had 77 I am so proud of Bud Nance as a North of the things that rarely gets written wonderful years and have had the privilege Carolinian, I have another connection about regarding politics, and it is al- of knowing some of the great people of my with him, which is that my father-in- most the thing I have enjoyed the most time. law, Vince Anania, who was a captain about being a Senator, is the kind of Not the slightest tinge of self-pity, in the Navy, went to the Naval Acad- friendships that develop here. remorse, regret, or bitterness. He was emy and was a classmate of Bud Nance May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5457 at the Naval Academy. My father-in- fairs Committee if for no other reason I did not know Admiral Nance well. I law was a career naval aviator, a man than Bud Nance. knew him to see him. I, on several oc- for whom I have great love, admira- Bud Nance and I talked about that casions, approached him with some tion, and respect, and he held Bud occasionally, and that relationship questions about policy issues that I Nance in enormous esteem and friend- built. For me, it was a very important knew the committee was working on, ship, having gone to school with him, part of my service on the Senate For- that I knew he was involved in with having known him over the years. eign Affairs Committee and in this Senator HELMS. On each occasion, he I have to say, this man’s career body. answered my queries with patience and speaks for itself. The fact that he is I recall 4 months into my first year with a great deal of understanding. I in the Senate at a hearing Senator held in such high esteem by Capt. walked away thinking to myself, this HELMS was presiding over—and I know Vince Anania, whom I love, admire and is a person who really knows these this will come as a surprise to some respect, just about says it all. I think issues, both from experience and just a this man was an extraordinary man Members on the floor—one of our col- leagues had an awful lot to say that general knowledge from a wide range who gave extraordinary service to his of interests and issues. It reminded me country. We have lost a great Amer- day and was not inhibited by time or bashful about how much he wished to again, then, with him, as it has with so ican. many others, of the wonderful service I yield the floor. contribute on this particular subject. given the Senate by so many people on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The As one of our colleagues went on and our staffs. But he was different. He was Chair recognizes the senior Senator on and on, Admiral Nance leaned for- by all accounts, of all those who had from North Carolina. ward and said, ‘‘Senator,’’ and I turned Mr. HELMS. I ask unanimous con- and I said, ‘‘Yes, Admiral Nance.’’ He many more dealings with him than I sent that any further remarks by other said, ‘‘I want you to observe some- had, a person who brought to this Sen- Senators today or subsequent to today thing.’’ He smiled and winked and ate a very substantial background and relative to Bud Nance be printed in looked down and then said, ‘‘Senator, a very special kind of knowledge about tandem with the remarks that will al- remember, you need not be eternal to these issues in foreign affairs. ready appear. be immortal.’’ So I want to add my voice today to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without I don’t think that was an original, the expressions of gratitude for his but it was at that time effective and objection, it is so ordered. public service. Yes, condolence over his framed the issue in rather simple Bud The PRESIDING OFFICER. The passing and sympathy to his family Nance eloquence that the Senator has Chair recognizes the Senator from Ne- and loved ones, but especially, at the braska. come to know for so many years. Of course we will all miss him; not same time, to say thank you to Admi- Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, to my ral Nance for lending himself in service friend and distinguished colleague, the only for what he represented—and maybe, more than anything, what he to his country in such a noble way and senior Senator from North Carolina, especially thank you to him for being chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela- represented was a role model. Each of us who has the privilege of serving our of service to his country here in the tions Committee, I offer my sympathy, Senate with Senator HELMS for so my condolences. I have expressed those country should always understand that the greatest responsibility we have is many years. sentiments to Senator HELMS in writ- ing and face-to-face. to be as good a role model as we pos- I yield the floor. sibly can. For his staff, as you know so I have heard the eloquence of many Mr. GRAMS. Mr. President, I take well, Mr. Chairman, you who loved this of my colleagues here this morning, ex- this opportunity to join many of my pressing themselves about how they man, who adored this man—not be- cause he was a friendly man, but he colleagues this morning in saying just feel about a very special American. how grateful I am that I had the The only weakness that has been pre- guided them and he helped them; he was tough when he needed to be chance to work with ‘‘the Admiral.’’ sented here is that most of them have tough—for all those staff members who When I call Bud Nance ‘‘the Admiral,’’ been Navy. Having been an Army ser- served with Admiral Nance, I wish to I do so on purpose, because when a Sen- geant in Vietnam in 1968, I, too, have say thank you on their behalf, since ator referred to ‘‘the Admiral,’’ of some sense of appreciation for a Navy they do not have the privilege of being course you never had to question which admiral. Of course, when I was in Viet- on the floor of the Senate this morn- one. We all knew that Member was nam as an Army sergeant, I didn’t ing, acknowledging his service. And on talking about—of course, Admiral know any admirals, but I got to know behalf of this Army veteran, very jun- Nance. this admiral rather well. ior Senator, I wish to thank Admiral I wish to share a quick story that the The Admiral was a great man, a true Nance. For you, Bud Nance, wherever Senator from North Carolina may not American hero. He survived over 150 you are: We will miss you, Admiral. Japanese suicide bomber attacks dur- know about Bud Nance. Two weeks I yield the floor. after I was elected to the Senate from ing World War II. He became a Navy The PRESIDING OFFICER. The test pilot, which was dangerous work. Nebraska in 1996, I received a call from Chair recognizes the Senator from Admiral Nance. It had gotten around In one of the 10-men units in which he North Carolina. served, five pilots died in crashes. So back here that I was interested in serv- Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I think I we know he was not only brave but also ing on the Senate Foreign Affairs Com- have never heard such eloquence in my mittee. Admiral Nance first congratu- 27 years in the Senate. It was a glory to blessed. lated me on my victory and then said me just to sit here and hear the evalua- Later he commanded the aircraft car- the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee tions of a man whom I have known and rier U.S.S. Forrestal and served as dep- would be willing to even take an Army loved all my life. uty assistant to the President for na- veteran—if it came to that—but want- Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I want- tional security affairs under Ronald ed me to know that he was at my dis- ed to just add a note of sympathy and Reagan. posal to help me and assist me in any condolence, but also, on this day, a Chairman HELMS and the Senate For- way with the staff that I was assem- note of admiration for Admiral Nance’s eign Relations Committee benefited bling, whether I joined the Senate For- public service. As I said one day on the from his intense patriotism and vast eign Affairs Committee or not. floor when we were talking about the experience. We are all very lucky that We had a long talk—as I recall about late Scott Bates, there are many peo- 45 minutes—about our country, about ple who serve this country, and work in he was willing to serve his country in service to our country, military, for- this Senate especially, who do so in this way, continuing his lifelong com- eign relations. After that 45-minute ways that are not obvious to people on mitment to the defense of our Nation’s conversation, I walked out of my office the outside, but in ways that are criti- interests. in Omaha and said to the person who is cally important to the workings of the Let me say something else about the now my chief of staff: I am going to Senate and the construction of good Admiral. He was a modest man, a very seek a seat on the Senate Foreign Af- public policy in America. simple man, and he certainly would not S5458 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 18, 1999 want all of this fuss about his accom- time of dedicated and successful serv- or earlier in life, but it was remark- plishments over a very long life. But ice to his country. But, what most of able. And it never wavered, even during Admiral Nance was a Navy man and, of us will recall beyond his distinguished his last great battle with sickness and course, loved to tell stories. In his record and credentials is the support pain. Admiral Nance was a steady hand memory, I want to relate an anecdote and friendship Bud offered many of us, on the foreign relations Senate ship, about the Admiral which reflects his especially to Senator HELMS. just as he was in his command of the straightforward nature and, above all, Bud brought the quiet confidence and aircraft carrier Forrestal. He displayed his sense of humor. certain purpose he had gained from courage and grace in his fight against This happened before my time in the growing up in a close knit community illness. Senate, but it is one of those stories to each challenge and task he faced. The Senate is served every day by that gets repeated by members of the When he arrived to serve Senator men and women of great dedication, Foreign Relations Committee. I share HELMS as chief of staff of the Foreign commitment and industry who believe it with everyone today because if any Relations Committee there were no in the American system of government. of you did not have the pleasure of shortages to the variety and com- Even among these exceptional people, knowing Bud Nance, you will have a plexity of those challenges. But, Bud Admiral Nance stood out. He will be better understanding of why he was so had a gift for dissecting and analyzing missed. Our thoughts and prayers go beloved by everybody with whom he complicated issues—whether personnel out to his wife, Mary Lyda Faulk; their worked. or policy—cutting with certainty to children, James Lee Nance, Mary Cath- It occurred in the summer of 1992 the heart of any matter, giving guid- erine Worth, Andrew Monroe Nance when Admiral Nance was the minority ance then moving on to the next chal- and Susan Elizabeth Nance, and their staff director of the Foreign Relations lenge. He saw each problem as an op- many grandchildren. Committee and he had requested a doc- portunity to support his friends and Mr. ASHCROFT. Mr. President, I rise ument from AID on funds for Nica- serve his country. today to join every member of this ragua. The answer the Admiral got The many conversations I enjoyed body in mourning the loss of Admiral from AID was not in English with dol- with Bud flowed from our common rev- James W. ‘‘Bud’’ Nance. His loss is felt lar amounts, but rather it came in erence for the history and stories so fa- especially among those Members and Spanish with amounts in cordobas. miliar in the South. He represented the staff who worked closely with the Ad- So the Admiral wrote back to AID best of North Carolina traditions—he miral on the Foreign Relations Com- saying he had three staff members who had that strong streak of country mittee. He is survived by his wife of 53 were Spanish speakers, but they were sense, yet was ever sentimental; his years, four children, and seven grand- all busy, and since English was obvi- wisdom twinkled with humor. He children. The much-celebrated friendship be- ously not AID’s official language, he brought these strengths to every dis- tween Admiral Nance and Senator wanted all communication from AID to cussion we had on a wide range of JESSE HELMS set the tone for the work the committee to be either in Russian issues from arms control to foreign of the Foreign Relations Committee. or Hebrew during the month of August. aid—he made a difference with South- Few committee chairmen have known But—here is the real kicker—the Ad- ern distinction. their staff directors since first grade. miral sent his response to AID through Bud’s loss will be felt most deeply by The level of trust between those two his life long and good friend, ‘‘JESSE’’. the proper channels on Foreign Rela- elevated the work of the Committee to I thank him for sharing Bud with us for tions Committee stationery, it was all a distinct level. very proper and official looking, except the past 8 years. The Senate and its Born in 1921 in Monroe, North Caro- for one thing: He had a member of his Members are the richer for his con- lina, Admiral Nance went on to grad- staff draft it up in Hebrew. And that is tribution and service. uate from the Naval Academy, fight in the truth. I have a copy of the letter Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I join World War II, and serve 35 years in the right here. my colleagues in saying how much this U.S. Navy. That was all before he By the way, the only bit of English Senate, and this nation, will miss Bud began his second career after 1979 in was, of course, his signature at the bot- Nance. I want, as well, to offer my con- the Legislative and Executive branches tom of the letter: ‘‘James W. Nance.’’ dolences to Admiral Nance’s family, to of Government. In the Navy, the Admi- According to the Admiral, he never Senator HELMS on the loss of his child- ral was a first rate aviator, involved in heard back from AID on that matter, hood friend and staff member, and to some of the more dangerous testing but he never received another foreign- Admiral Nance’s colleagues at the Sen- and developing programs for naval language document without a trans- ate Foreign Relations Committee. fighters. He served as Commanding Of- lation as well. Other Senators on both sides of the ficer of the Attack Carrier Air Wing So again, Mr. President, this is not aisle have spoken of Admiral Nance’s Eight aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal and just a time to mourn our loss, but I be- distinguished careers—in the Navy, the later became the Commanding Officer lieve very strongly it is a time to cele- White House, and here in the Senate. of that aircraft carrier—a ship that had brate the Admiral’s life. He will be He was, as they have said, a war hero, more sailors (5,000) than his hometown missed, but he will not be forgotten. and a true patriot. Senior Naval offi- of Monroe, North Carolina. Thank you very much, Mr. President. cer. Commander of U.S. forces in Eu- The Admiral concluded his naval ca- I yield the floor. rope. National security advisor to two reer as Assistant Vice Chief of Naval The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Presidents. Chief of Staff to the Senate Operations and Director of Naval Ad- Chair recognizes the Senator from Foreign Relations Committee. ministration. He went on to serve as a California. Senator HELMS is his dearest and old- staff member of the Senate Foreign Re- Mrs. BOXER. Thank you very much, est friend in the Senate. But Admiral lations Committee in 1979–80 and Dep- Mr. President. Nance leaves many friends here—on uty Assistant for National Security Af- I associate myself with the remarks both sides of the aisle. He was a good fairs under President Reagan. In that that have been made all morning con- and decent man. A man of great accom- capacity, he was responsible for man- cerning the passing of Admiral Nance, plishment and true humility. He was aging the entire staff of the National and what a gentleman he was, and also a man of integrity. You knew, Security Council at the White House. what a difficult thing it is for Senator whenever you dealt with Admiral Admiral Nance returned specifically HELMS to lose a friend he has had since Nance, that you were dealing with a to naval aviation by running Boeing’s childhood. fair and open man. You knew if Bud Navy Systems program from 1983 to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, in Nance made a commitment, it would be 1990. In 1991, he returned to the Foreign 1941, Monroe, North Carolina, lost Bud kept. His word was his bond. Relations Committee as Deputy Staff Nance, a favorite home grown boy, who He was also an tireless worker. Most Director for the Minority and has traveled north to the U.S. Naval Acad- mornings, he arrived at the Capitol at served the last four years as Majority emy. Last week, we all suffered the 7 o’clock. He was still at his desk late Staff Director for the Committee. loss of Admiral Nance to a different into most nights. I don’t know whether The Admiral’s commitment to serv- journey. He passed away after a life his work ethic was formed in the Navy, ice can be seen throughout his life, and May 18, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5459 that was certainly the case in the four activities of the Foreign Relations Mr. President, in Bud Nance the Sen- years that I worked with him as a Committee, Bud set the highest stand- ate has lost a loyal public servant and Member of the Foreign Relations Com- ard in his selfless commitment to the nation has lost a true patriot. mittee. In assuming the position of country and his loyalty to friends. His Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I Staff Director, Admiral Nance told commanding presence, his decorum in would like to add my voice to those of Senator HELMS he viewed the job as a all that he did, and his model of sac- my colleagues who have risen today to service to his country and wanted no rifice and service is an inspiration for talk about the remarkable service compensation. Senate rules required all who knew him. given this body, and our nation, by Ad- some level of compensation to be an of- While we are saddened by his passing, miral James W. Nance, majority staff ficial Senate employee, however, so we rejoice in his memory and in the director of the Foreign Relations Com- Admiral Nance began his tenure with legacy of loyalty and service he left be- mittee. the exorbitant income of $3.36 a week. hind. Chairman HELMS, my sympathy Although I am no longer on the Com- When Congress became bound by the and condolences to you in the loss of mittee, I had the honor and pleasure of laws of the land, Senator HELMS was this great friend. Our prayers and serving as a member of that Committee forced to raise Admiral Nance’s salary thoughts are also with the Admiral’s in the 105th Congress, and to come to to minimum wage. wife and children. know and admire ‘‘The Admiral.’’ We smile as we reflect on the Admi- Mr. President, I would like to con- In many ways, Admiral Nance was ral’s paltry salary, but what a selfless clude these brief remarks with a poem the living embodiment of what Tom display of service that was to his coun- by Ralph Waldo Emerson, titled ‘‘Great Brokaw, in his recent book, has called try and this body. Earning the min- Men.’’ It captures, far better than I ‘‘The Greatest Generation.’’ He had a imum wage was not a publicity stunt. could in my own words, Bud’s commit- distinguished career in the Navy, serv- Admiral Nance operated behind the ment and service to this country. ing in combat in World War II, as a test scenes almost entirely. This man was Not gold, but only man can make pilot, and later as commander of the truly motivated by gratitude to the A people great and strong; aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal. United States. Men who, for truth and honor’s sake Following his Naval career, he served Stand fast and suffer long. Admiral Nance was a dedicated con- as deputy assistant to the President for servative, and his conservatism was Brave men who work while others sleep, National Security Affairs in the rooted in respect for his fellow man Who dare while others fly— They build a nation’s pillars deep Reagan administration, and then and an unshakeable commitment to And lift them to the sky. joined his boyhood friend, the distin- the best interests of his country. His Bud Nance was once of these great guished Senator from North Carolina, partisanship was good-humored and men who helped build our nation’s pil- in offering his service, and his exper- balanced. The Admiral had a verse dis- lars deep and lift them to the sky. tise, to the U.S. Senate as staff direc- played prominently in his office from Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I join tor for the Foreign Relations Com- Ecclesiastes which read ‘‘The heart of my colleagues and the entire Senate mittee. the wise inclines to the right, but the family in honoring the life and mem- His kindness to me—as a junior mem- heart of the fool to the left.’’ Whether ory of Admiral James Nance, the ber of the minority party—in getting as a formidable opponent or valued ally former majority staff director for the to know the ins and outs of the Com- in the work of the Senate, Admiral Senate Foreign Relations Committee. mittee was always appreciated, and his Nance respected—and won the respect My deepest sympathies go out to Bud’s sage council and advice were always a of—all members of the Foreign Rela- wife, Mary, and to his four children and welcome addition to the Committee’s tions Committee. seven grandchildren. consideration of a range of pressing na- This man was a warrior his entire I also want to express to my Chair- tional security issues. life, placing himself in harm’s way for man, Senator HELMS, my sincerest con- The Admiral will be sorely missed— the good of his country. He died as he dolences on the loss of his lifelong but I join my colleagues in celebrating lived—he fought to the very end. Many friend. He and Bud Nance, born just a his life of service to the United States. Members of this body probably are not few months apart, grew up a mere Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I suggest aware of the health difficulties he three blocks from each other in Mon- the absence of a quorum. struggled with during his entire tenure roe, North Carolina. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as Staff Director of the Foreign Rela- Bud Nance joined the Navy in 1941 clerk will call the roll. tions Committee. It would have been and retired 38 years later as a rear ad- The legislative assistant proceeded easy to walk away. There was a reason miral. He served this nation in active to call the roll. he stayed, though. duty in three wars. During his service Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask Admiral Nance was a true American. in World War II, he survived 162 Japa- unanimous consent that the order for His life was a testament to the ideals nese air and kamikaze attacks. Over the quorum call be rescinded. which have made this country great. the course of his career, he served as a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without He believed in the United States of Navy test pilot, led an attack squadron objection, it is so ordered. America. He believed in prudent and and an air wing, and commanded the Mr. GRASSLEY. I ask unanimous decisive American leadership in the U.S.S. Raleigh and the aircraft carrier, consent to speak for 5 minutes. world. He believed in what this country Forrestal. After leaving the military in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without stood for and what it could accomplish. 1979, Admiral Nance served as assistant objection, it is so ordered. As we reflect on his life in the com- national security adviser until he f ing days, may each of us gain a re- joined the private sector as head of OLDER AMERICANS MONTH newed sense of commitment to pre- naval systems for Boeing. serve the blessings of freedom which In 1991, Senator HELMS asked his old Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, May the Admiral defended. My sympathies friend to bring his military knowledge happens to be Older Americans Month. are with the Admiral’s wife Mary Lyda and experience in world affairs to the I believe we should honor older Ameri- and their children. Mr. President, I Senate Foreign Relations Committee. cans through this month, not only be- yield the floor. Admiral Nance refused to take a salary cause my State of Iowa has many fine Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, I and received only the minimum com- senior citizens whom I am very willing rise today to honor a great man and a pensation allowed under federal law— and happy to talk about because of great American who passed away last $153 per year. their contributions to our State and week. I had the privilege of working Bud Nance will be remembered in our society, but also because I am with and knowing Admiral James ‘Bud’ this body as a gracious and kind gen- chairman of the Aging Committee. Nance. His passing was a great loss for tleman. When I joined the Foreign Re- It may be human nature to overlook me personally, for the Senate, and lations Committee this year, Bud the hardships of previous generations. most importantly, for our country. called to welcome me and my staff to We do not think about suffering that In both his long and distinguished the Committee. It was typical of Bud’s we do not have to endure, and that is naval career and his work directing the courtesy and good manners. the way it should be. That is the way