May 16, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H5275 Now, we have the analogy of politics active duty, retired just a few years bat Navy hero, 58-mission George Bush as war without blood. In every war ago in 1988, and was the squadron com- was sworn in. And that is what I titled monumental mistakes are made. The mander of the PT boats that took Gen- this piece, or our wonderful recorders nature of war is such that it is going to eral MacArthur off Corregidor. I point- that took the title from my words. It grind down and eat up, chew up, and ed out that in an otherwise beautiful says President Reagan commands us, abuse large numbers of people because funeral ceremony on Patriots’ Day, remember our heroes, remember our it is an emergency and we cannot set April 19, the only sad note was that past. our own scenarios. We have to react to there were no Cabinet officers, no Vice Mr. Speaker, I read beautiful moving the enemy. There are a number of President. Bill Clinton had held the passages of President Reagan’s words, things in the nature of war. That is wreath with Admiral Bulkeley at the then told some history about Admiral why the analogy that politics is war 50th anniversary of D-day, the Nor- Bulkely that was my tribute to him without blood is a bad analogy. mandy invasions to begin the day at and to George Cox, Sr. with George, Jr. We should not have to move in an at- dawn. watching. Then I got into Admiral mosphere of war. We should not have Together they held a wreath honor- Boorda’s remarks. And then I read the to rally to meet a crisis that does not ing all those who died at sea, the Coast stunningly beautiful tribute to Admi- need to be created. Health care could Guardsmen driving the landing craft up ral Bulkely from his second son, an ac- be kept at some kind of rationale level. to the beach, the few naval craft as tive duty Navy captain, Peter Health care should be kept off the they secured the waters of the English Bulkeley, and my time ran out. So I table. Channel for the Allied forces that died, was going to come back at some point Yes, eventually, HMO’s, profit mak- those that died leading up to it, those this week and finish reading, because I ing HMO’s, may make money in health that died in secret operations in the promised Admiral Bulkeley’s son and care. Eventually Wall Street may have months leading up to it where we lost his three daughters, beautiful daugh- stocks in the health care industry do hundreds of sailors and soldiers, and it ter-in-law, that I would read it word very well. But let us try to do that and was kept secret for 25 years. for word, it was that good. That is what I thought Ronald make capitalism and the profit motive That wreath was to commemorate all who were lost at sea, including those Reagan wanted us to do, as RON KLINK work for the benefit of the people. Let on the other side performed a moving us not allow the situation to get to- landing barges that were blown up by shore artillery and mortar fire sent out historical tribute to the people of Crete tally out of hand and a scorched earth and how it might have been the key by the Germans. At the funeral, which policy to leave us with ruins in our battle that, although lost, delayed Hit- I talked about here 6 days ago, I said health care system. ler’s invasion of Russia and thereby that the first eulogy for Admiral Once we close a hospital, reopening it turned the course of history in World Bulkeley, this Medal of Honor winner, is almost impossible. Once we close War II. down certain kinds of facilities, we holder of two Distinguished Service So I was going to come back tonight cannot bring them back. And we must Crosses, Navy Cross, two Purple and finish Peter Bulkeley, Captain force those who are in place of deci- Hearts, two Silver Stars, French Croix Peter Bulkeley’s tribute to his dad. sion-making and power to stop, listen, de Guerre. The first speaker was the And now I have to do that and a tribute and negotiate. CNO, the Chief of Naval Operations, to Mike Boorda. I have Mike’s biog- Our demands in New York City are Jeremy Michael Boorda, Mike to his raphy in front of me. What a life. Just three basic demands. Freeze the situa- friends. on two pages. Bulkeley served 55 years. tion. Do not go any further. Disclose Mr. Speaker, I have in front of me Boorda served 40. Fibbed about his age. your plans. Let us see what is happen- the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. How could The one time you can talk about fib- ing. And they negotiate. And this is a I or anyone have known that, while bing, downgrade the word from lie. pattern that I offer to the rest of the praising Admiral Boorda here at this When you are trying to wear the uni- country. very lectern on the leadership desk, form of your country and say you are that 6 days later he would be joining b 1845 older than you are, God must smile. Admiral Bulkeley in heaven? This is That is certainly not a venial sin. That It is your health care. This invasion phenomenal that our country is get- is a fib to serve your fellow man. He plan will roll right over you unless you ting hit with so many hammer blows of fibbed on his age in November 1938. He rally and guarantee that you are re- people dying. It must be tied into is my brother’s age, 2 years older, specting and that your health care does something to do with what the Holy younger brother, and he joined in No- not become cannon fodder in this so- Father in Rome calls the culture of vember 1938. Was an enlisted man for 8 called war to remake America. death. years, excuse me, 6 years, and was a f I got through most of Admiral Navy petty officer first class. Attack Boorda’s eulogy for Vice Admiral squadron 144, carrier airborne early TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL BULKELEY Bulkeley, and I had the son of the ac- AND ADMIRAL BOORDA warning squadron 11. tual PT boat, signal boat commander, My older brother’s son, a Navy lieu- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. PT 41, George Cox Jr., a late-in-life tenant commander who has served in SKEEN). Under the Speaker’s an- child is, I guess, the way they say it, the gulf 30 or some combat missions in nounced policy of May 12, 1995, the gen- not the grandson but the direct of son one of these squadrons, he had all this tleman from California [Mr. DORNAN] is of George Cox, Ensign George Cox, who enlisted experience and was selected recognized for 60 minutes as the des- was actually at the helm of the PT for commissioning under the integra- ignee of the majority leader. boat when Admiral Bulkeley with the tion program in 1962, 34 years ago. I Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, those last of his two boats out of only six to will get to Mike Boorda’s tribute in a that were watching the proceedings in begin with, when Manila, the Pearl minute, but let me tell you again what this Chamber earlier saw some brief 5- Harbor of Manila was December 8, Mike Boorda said about Admiral minute or shorter tributes to the Chief across the date line, when George Cox Bulkeley. Quoting myself, I finished of Naval Operations, the highest rank- was watching Junior, he is an LA of talking about SONNY MONTGOMERY, ing naval officer in the world up until CLAY SHAW of Florida, legislative as- SAM GIBBONS, World War II veterans in a few hours ago this afternoon when sistant. this House that had the only tribute to the early reports are telling us he took I opened with words of Ronald World War II other than about 10 or 15 his own life in the Chief of Naval Oper- Reagan that I used the next day when that I did, was a month after the war ations traditional officer’s home, just a I was the graduation speaker at a beau- had passed its 50th anniversary. few blocks from here in the Navy Yard tiful traditional Catholic Christian col- I finished talking about them and I on the Anacostia River. lege in Front Royal out in the beau- said: Mr. Speaker, I just do not under- Mr. Speaker, I had been intending to tiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I stand why people are not listening to come to the floor tonight to finish a talked about what Ronald Reagan had what Ronald Reagan said about talking tribute to Admiral John Duncan told us all to do in his goodbye words about history. So Admiral Boorda be- Bulkeley, who had served 55 years on on January 11, 1989, 9 days before com- gins his remarks. Mr. Speaker, this is H5276 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 16, 1996 his title of his tribute to Bulkeley on would like to do a tribute to Admiral duty of commander, Joint Task Force April 19, but I am saying it 6 days ago. Boorda, the highest ranking American Provide Promise, responsible for the Admiral Boorda says: You may cast off naval officer in the world this morning. supply of humanitarian relief to when ready, Johnny. Those were Mac- Talked to our colleague, Commander Bosnia-Herzegovina. He set up the air Arthur’s words to Squadron Com- DUKE CUNNINGHAM on the phone at 10, land and air drop dangerous night mis- mander Bulkeley. I am sure Bulkeley, and I think I have a right to say what sion, C–130s coming at 10,000 feet, try- as I discussed with George, Jr., turned he told DUKE, that he was feeling pres- ing to target air drops with parachutes to Ensign Cox and said—I am sorry, sure from the White House and Sec- of heavy medical supplies and food into those are my words. retary Perry to undercut the Repub- the besieged people of that poor war- I am sure that when Bulkeley heard lican defense authorization budget that torn land of Bosnia. He set all that up. those words from MacArthur he turned restores much modernization that is He has the Defense Distinguished to his PT boat skipper Ensign Cox and needed to our military, that he was Service Medal, the Distinguished Serv- said: George, let’s move it out of here, under terrific pressure. ice Medal, second time, Legion of anchors aweigh. Those were my re- He had an interview with the news Merit, third award, Meritorious Service marks. Admiral Boorda began, I say, magazine this afternoon, just an hour Medal and a number of other campaign this is Boorda. Will Rogers said that we after he died. He was getting ham- awards. cannot all be heroes. Then another mered in the press a little bit, but that He was our 25th Chief of Naval Oper- aside of mine: Mr. Speaker, I say, by would not have bothered someone with ations. the way, Admiral Boorda beautifully 40 years in our great Navy. What a history from 1775, John Paul delivered this, Mr. Speaker. Back to But as I talk about Bulkeley later Jones. I have not yet begun to fight. Mike: Some of us have to stand on the through the mouth of his son, Captain John Burrey, an Irishman, the father of curb and clap as those heroes go by. Peter Bulkeley, think about the fact our Navy Marine Corps, born November When he made that statement, Will that I will be back at that chapel in 10, same year, 1775. What a history. Rogers could only have had one type of Myer for Admiral Boorda’s funeral in a Only 25 CNOs. His beautiful wife, Irishwoman Betty person in mind, John Bulkeley. few days. This is amazing. Mike Boorda Moran, they have four children. It says We gather here today—this is the went through Officers Candidate nine grandchildren, but that is wrong. I new chapel at Fort Myer, in this place School in 1962 in Newport, RI. Got his was told today four more arrived just meant for heroes and applaud a true naval commission as a very experi- since this bio. No, 2 more. He has 11. I American hero as he passes by. And we enced young ensign August 1962. So he have 10. There is so much to live for, come together here as the rest of would have been 24 years old. He served four children. Well, he has got exactly America stands up and cheers for a in destroyers, combat information cen- ter on the Porterfield, went to de- what I have. I have five children. So he man who symbolizes the very best stroyer field in Newport, became a has 15 children and grandchildren, I about our Nation. While we are sad- weapons officer on the U.S.S. John Craig have 15 children and grandchildren. I dened to no longer have the great John and other destroyers, served on the want to get out of here some day and Bulkeley with us, Boorda continues, it Parrot and mine sweeper. Then he was live for them to pass on everything is not a day of sorrow. He would not a weapons instructor. that I hope is wise that I have learned have liked or allowed that. Today is a There is just so much here. I am in life. day meant to remember, to give going to skip through it because a lot Two of his sons are naval officers, thanks. of it is the dry bio of years and years of Mr. Speaker. What a tragic depression Then I point out that Admiral superb service going everywhere your must have borne down on that naval Boorda goes on page after page telling country and your Navy tells you to go. officer’s chest. What a tragedy. about his early years. I put it all in the Mr. Speaker, here is where I first met Just thought you would want to RECORD later. He tells about the film, him. After he was the commander of know that we have lost a great naval ‘‘They Were Expendable,’’ America’s cruiser, destroyer Group 8, the Grey- commander, a young teenaged boot leading man John Wayne, America’s hounds of the Sea, and as carrier battle going through probably Great Lakes sweetheart, Donna Reed. And Boorda group commander embarked on the Naval Center, where so many friends of talked about Admiral Bulkeley, how he Saratoga, one of our first big angle deck mine went through. What an inspira- lived his life for our navy and his coun- carriers, he also served as the com- tion he was to the kids out there on the try. mander of battle force Sixth Fleet in ships, and the young gals. This is what Boorda did for 40 years. 1987 in the Med. How tall was he, Mr. Speaker? Could Bulkeley did so with guts and heart not have been more than five foot 2, 3, b and, most important, with honor. His 1900 4; probably five-five. What a dynamite service stands as a tribute to every And then he comes to D.C., and this package. We are going to miss you, sailor. is where I met him. In August of 1988 Mike. This was obviously coming from he became chief of naval personnel, a So over there at that beautiful new Boorda’s heart, Mr. Speaker, because teenager of 17 up through the ranks. cathedral at Ft. Myers, resplendent in he always considered himself a sailor. Everyone thought this was the crown- his white uniform, a pallbearer also, of He said: Every American, every person ing glory of his career, vice admiral, 3 course. Many vice admirals sitting in on this Earth who cherishes freedom, stars, going to take care of all the kids the front row, one three-star general. Bulkeley’s life touched more than just and gals in the Navy and all the chief Should have been a lot bigger than us. It touched the world. And so today petty officers in the officer corps. He that for Admiral Bulkeley. America says—boy, these are words served there for 3 years. Mr. Speaker, FDR pinned on his from the grave. I give Mike Boorda’s In November of 1991, that is 5 years Medal of Honor. We have got a Medal of words back at him, Mr. Speaker: ago now, he got his fourth star. Has Honor winner in the Senate. I think Thank you, shipmate, for giving us the been a four-star general for what would that should have dropped everything to very best. And while we knew that you have been 5 years this November, and be there. Got 2 or 3 Navy Cross holders, were always special, too extraordinary in December 1991, 4 years ago last a former Navy Secretary over there. No to ever need our thanks, we just Christmas, he became the commander Navy Secretary. Great Army three-star thought you would like to know. in chief of all the allied forces in south- there, No. 2 man, but MacArthur The words he ended with there were ern Europe; I saw him there a year pinned on his Distinguished Service the way this legendary Admiral John after that; and then commander in Cross. Secretary of the Navy Frank Duncan Bulkeley would write a short chief of all the U.S. naval forces in Eu- Knox, under Roosevelt, pinned on one memo, sign it and then write a four- rope, headquarters in London, England, of his Navy Crosses, he got another page PS. He would always sign the PS: in those traditional buildings that go Distinguished Service Cross, but at Just thought you would want to know. all the way back to those D-Day vic- least he had Mike Boorda, CNO, speak- Now, I do not want to confuse, Mr. tories, World War II. ing up for him. Speaker, anybody who follows these On February 1, 1993 while serving as At this point what I would like to do proceedings, but I think at this point I commander in chief, he assumed the so that it is a coherent record is put May 16, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H5277 back in, and I will bring this down and the sea ladder, the German commander Marine lance corporal, comes running give it to the recorders, Mr. Speaker, would not salute the colors of the Endi- over and stood directly in front of the all of the first part of Peter Bulkeley’s cott. He was promptly tossed back into admiral ready and willing to take the tribute, which took his dad through his the sea. On the third time, that did the bullet that could end the life of his Annapolis years through China through trick, and he was taken prisoner and commander.’’ meeting the beautiful English girl allowed on deck. The admiral loved his Marines, and Alice, marrying her, the dark days in I heard this story a long time ago, the Marines loved and respected him in the Philippines, his days as the wild but last year, this would be 1995, I had return. He would be with them day and man of the Philippines, his clothes rag- the privilege of attending one of the night in fatigues ready to conduct war, ged, the both covered in grease and die- Endicott ship’s reunions and was told if necessary, but more, to defend Amer- sel fuel and held together with spit and the same story over and over by the icans and the land of the free against wire and prayers, and Peter’s beautiful crew that served and loved their cap- the Communist yoke of tyranny. words that will be in the RECORD, took tain so well, John Bulkeley. Colonel Stevens, the former com- him right up through the end of World World War II closed, and the admiral manding officer of the Marine barracks War II, the stories of D-day, the stories emerged as one of the Navy’s and at Guantanamo, wrote just recently that I told because I had heard it and America’s most decorated heroes, hav- adding three more stories to the legend forgotten it. It was in Peter’s words ing been awarded the Medal of Honor, of John Bulkeley. The admiral had the about sinking two German Corvettes, the Navy Cross, the Army Distin- compassion of the men in the field, capturing the Nazi commanders; maybe guished Service Cross with Oak Leaf taking time again and again to bring they were not Nazis, just naval offi- Cluster in lieu of a second award, two them relief, whether cookies on Christ- cers, but they refused to salute Old Silver Stars, Legion of Medal with mas morning or visiting with them at Glory, a Naval tradition, as they were Combat V, the Purple Heart twice over, odd hours of the night to ease their rescued and brought up on the deck of the Philippine Distinguished Conduct nerves. They loved this man, the young Admiral Bulkeley’s first major combat Star, and from France the French men—not so young. The 70-year-olds at surface ship, the destroyer Endicott, Croix de Guerre, which by the way, my his funeral from the Endicott told me and he had them thrown back in the father earned the hard way, with three he knew every man’s name on the ship; water. wound chevrons that are now called every nickname and would pop up in I am told last Friday how the story Purple Hearts, in World War I, Mr. the dead of night to have coffee with was repeated to me by several of the Speaker. whoever was on watch in the wee hours crewmen from the Endicott that were Asked about his many decorations, of 2, 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning. there to pay tribute at the funeral to John Bulkeley would only comment, The admiral would construct on that John Duncan Bulkeley, and, Peter, I ‘‘Medals and awards do not mean any- hill, his hill overlooking the northeast got to the point where I read his words thing. It is what is inside of you, how gate in Guantanamo, would construct telling that story, a true story how the you feel about yourself, that counts.’’ the largest Marine Corps insignia in German on the third time around With an eye to the future, John the world as a quiet reminder that the worked the trick, as Captain Peter Bulkeley looked forward to the day he U.S. Marine Corps stood vigilant over said, and he finally saluted Old Glory, would become an admiral in the Navy this base, and in tribute a Marine and then I told something that was not he loved so much. As President Ken- would write John Bulkeley, Marine in in Peter’s remarks told to me by the nedy in the early months of his admin- sailor’s clothing. Camp Bulkeley is helmsman Joe Caine, who was about 20, istration dealt with an ever increasing still there in Guantanamo today, and and that was about 50 years ago plus 2, crisis over Cuba, the admiral got his that Marine anchor and globe has a so he is about 72 years old now, spry wish and, for a quarter of a century, fresh coat of paint. and as chipper as ever. would serve as a flag officer in the John Bulkeley never forgot his early He told how Admiral Bulkeley took Navy. years, the hard iron-like discipline, the two Jewish members of the crew from As I am reading this, Mr. Speaker, I poor material condition of the fleet Brooklyn, from the Bronx, and gave am picturing Boorda, Admiral Boorda, and the need to always be ready. He them Thompson submachine guns and sitting there in the front row. How was talking about the ’30s, 1930’s. In took them into the officer’s ward many days ago? Eleven? Twenty-seven this own words, to be able to conduct where they had these two German Cor- days ago. prompt, sustained combat operations vette commanders, captains, and said, Challenged in his first assignment as at sea assigned as the president of the ‘‘Now, do you speak English?’’ And commander of the Guantanamo Naval Board of Inspection and Survey, inspec- they did. They were educated. And he Base, Bulkeley met and defeated the tor general position unique to the said, ‘‘Well, these two fellows here have challenge of Fidel Castro’s threats of Navy. The Army and Air Force do not a good Bronx background, and they’re severing the water supplies of the base. have this as you know, Mr. Speaker; a Jewish. I thought you might want to Today Guantanamo stands as a symbol post held by many distinguished naval know that if you make a move, you’re of American resolve because men like officers since its inception almost since in a lot of trouble. Cover him, guys.’’ John Bulkeley stood up and refused to the beginning of the Navy. Bulkeley’s One was named Gottleib and the other, bend and took the initiative to stare boundless energy would find him they said it was either Rosenburg or down belligerent threats of lesser men aboard every ship in the Navy from Rosenstein. It was quite a story. not friendly with America. Perhaps a keel to the top of the mast, from the So that is where my time ran out, tribute of the time was a wanted poster fire control system to inside a boiler and I pick up admiral—not admiral. offering 50,000 pesos for commander— discussing readiness and sharing sea Maybe some day another admiral in Captain Bulkeley, dead or alive, by the stories and a cup of coffee with the the Bulkeley family because Peter had Communist leadership of Cuba, along men who operate our ships, our planes also talked about all the naval officers with the description a guerrilla, the and our submarines. This throughout and heroes going all the way back to worst species. I take it back. He was a the end of this 55-year career. He was the battle of Trafalgar and the victory flag officer by this time. relentless in his quest to improve the and Lord Nelson. So I picked up Peter At Guantanamo, for those that have safety and material condition of the Bulkeley’s words in his eulogy for his visited, there is a hill that overlooks fleet and the conditions for the health dad, and I will continue from here, and the northeast gate, a gate with a sign and well-being of those men. He con- it will have his full eulogy in the that reads ‘‘Cuba, Land Free from ducted his inspections by the book and record. America.’’ I remember standing there strict accordance with standards, as Let me pause, Peter says. The admi- with former members Bob Lagomarsino many a man well knows, but his love ral was a strong believer in standards. and Eldon Rudd of Arizona. for the sailors always came through. Some may say he was from the old Peter says, ‘‘I stood with my dad on His ‘‘Just thought you’d like to school, as the enemy captain of one of that hill almost 32 years ago. Cuban know’’ memos was another invention the Corvette soon learned. I have not troops began moving about. They were of his that was designed to be a, quote, read this, so I will do this. Coming up armed. My dad’s 19-year-old driver, a unofficial report, unquote. But of H5278 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 16, 1996 course they were often greeted by a you on your wedding night, while he who are ignorant of what I am trying groan by the recipient in the Navy’s stood watch out in Swatow Harbor, to do for our military have been taking leadership knowing that John Bulkeley China provide us comfort of this love cheap shots at me all week long. They had another concern that needed atten- for you and his service to country. Be- just bounce off my back, because I am tion, and the number of information fore he passed away, every member, the one who has done the research on addresses receiving the same ‘‘Just child, and grandchild, sons and daugh- this moral crisis in our country and in thought you’d like to know’’ letters ters-in-law all came to be with him in my beloved military, all the services. I often were longer than the letter itself. his last days. This by itself is testi- have never felt parochial about the Air The admiral would laugh about his in- mony of the legacy he leaves behind Force, I belonged to all the forces. formal invention less than 30 days ago. and the love his family had for him. I will spend all day tomorrow at West That is last March. ‘‘Today we face a different challenge Point. I have four or five cadets up After 55 years of commissioned serv- than what John Bulkeley did. Old en- there from my little California, Orange ice, John Bulkeley retired to private emies are our allies. But now there are County, district. I will have lunch with life. I was there at his retirement cere- new foes who challenge our country’s them, I will meet with the instructors. mony with Admiral Trost, then Chief interests and our way of life some- I come back here Saturday, and I am of Naval Operations. times, even inside our own borders.’’ going to the ordination of 12 priests, the biggest ordination of priests any- b 1915 Narcotics. ‘‘Admiral Bulkeley’s efforts and sac- where in this country this year in a di- ‘‘John Bulkeley, as you recall, did rifices for a better world, a free world, ocese, Arlington, across the river, that not like notoriety and wanted to keep his integrity and honor, and a combat- is on fire with the Holy Spirit; great a low profile, throughout his life, even ready fleet, ready to conduct prompt, priests. One of them is my son-in-law’s his last day in his Navy. His ceremony, sustained combat operations are his priest from the Mission San Juan as requested, was brief and to the legacy to our Nation. Capistrano, Joe Dressler. He is coming point. Held in the CNO’s office, with ‘‘Seated before me are many of the back here to meet with some of his un- family present, all he sought after giv- warriors that fought alongside the ad- derclassmen from the seminary that he ing his entire life to his country and miral, shared in his beliefs, his deter- studied at. his service was to have the CNO’s flag mination, his losses, his grief, and his Then on Sunday, I am taking my lieutenant open the door so he could unfailing lover of family, service, and wife and the Air Force is driving me slip his mooring line and leave quietly. country. down to an Air National Guard base at ‘‘Today we celebrate the final jour- ‘‘With his passing, the watch has Richmond, and I am going to fly the F– ney of a great American, John been relieved. A new generation takes 16, if I pass my morning physical down Bulkeley, and let him sail away.’’ the helm and charts the course. His there, with an Air National Guard Ironically, we should have all the Navy, he shaped for so many years, is squadron of great tradition; flew the F– flags in D.C. at half mast today, Mr. at sea today, stronger and better be- 105 Thunder Chief after Vietnam for Speaker, for Adm. Jeremy ‘‘Mike’’ cause of him, operating forward in far- years, and now flies the F–16 Falcon. They have been given the duty of Boorda. away places, standing vigilant and en- working out the tactical reconnaisance ‘‘We should not mourn, for he would gaged in keeping peace and helping our mission in pods on F–16’s, instead of not want that, preferring we celebrate fellow man, but ready for war. taking over the whole aircraft of the his long life, fruitful life, and the life ‘‘In his own words, he leaves this F–101 Voodoo, the RA–5 Vigilante in he chooses to lead. When asked to de- with you: ‘Be prepared. Your day will Vietnam, or the RF–4 Phantom in Viet- scribe his own life he said,’’ listen to come, heaven forbid, when you will be nam and all over the world, all over the this, Mr. Speaker, ‘Interesting, Fas- called to go forward to defend our great cinating, and Beneficial to the United world, right up through Desert Storm. Nation. Your leadership, bravery, and Now, instead of a dedicated States.’ ’’ skill will be tested to the utmost.’ ’’ He reconnaisance fighter aircraft, we are Would not every Congressman and continues with his dad’s words: ‘‘You going to have a pod and a mission Senator like to say their career was in- should never forget that America’s where in every fighter squadron, or in teresting, fascinating, and beneficial to Torch of Freedom has been handed handpicked squadrons, there will be a the United States of America? down to you by countless others that few aircraft capable of reconnaisance ‘‘The spirit of John Bulkeley is here. answer their country’s call and often and fighting if they get in trouble and You can see it everywhere. You can see gave their lives to preserve freedoms so have to jettison the pod; quite an air- it in the faces of our young sailors and many take for granted. This torch is plane, that single-engine single-seat marines, the midshipmen and our jun- now in your hands. You have a great single-tail F–16. I will be doing that. ior officers who will be challenged to responsibility to uphold duty, honor, Next weekend, depending on our live up to his standards of integrity, country. God bless each of you and pro- votes, I am going up to Greenland to loyalty, bravery, and dedicated service tect you. close the circle on trips that I have to country and to service. ‘‘Just thought you’d like to know.’’ made to the North Pole with Admiral ‘‘John Bulkeley’s career and service ‘‘So, we gather together today to say Mauz, another great four-star nuclear to the Nation spanned six turbulent farewell to a man we love, a man we re- engineer who runs all the nuclear pro- decades of this century, he saw first- spect and cherish, a man that did his grams in the Navy. He took AL GORE hand desperate times and the horrors duty, that made his mark in life, and and I up to the North Pole to go under of war. Yet he was also a father, left the world a better and safer place. the North Pole ice cap on the U.S.S. marrying the woman he loved, and in Peter Bulkeley looked toward his fa- Sea Horse. his own words, ‘It was the best thing I ther and said, ‘God bless you, Dad. All Navy officer Bart Roper, back seat ever did.’ ’’ He said that to my face at lines are clear.’ A beautiful tribute. I radar intercept officer who is now the D-day when he introduced me to his could look over about 6 people, see the AA of the gentleman from Florida, JOE wife and several of his grown children. tears in the eyes of the Naval CNO, SCARBOROUGH, who was earlier doing a Peter continues: ‘‘And raised the Chief of Naval Ops.’’ tribute to Admiral Boorda; Lt. Comdr. family he could be proud of, because we So I will just make Peter’s tribute to Bart Roper, now working as one of our are proud of him.’’ Then, in a tearful his legendary father a tribute to your allies on the Hill, he took me down to moment in the audience for us, Mr. 40 years, Admiral Boorda: God bless Antarctica. I flew with the greatest Speaker, Capt. Peter Bulkeley looked you, Mike, all lines are clear. I will see Navy pilots I have ever flown with in at his mother, and he says, ‘‘Mom, you your family over at Fort Myer Cathe- my life, old Huey helicopters, ski- were his right arm, his closest friend dral. equipped LC–130’s. They call them- for a long and full life. You gave him Mr. Speaker, this has been a tough selves the ice pirates. I have a great your love and your support. You truly week. My honor has been challenged patch of theirs on one of my flight were the Wind beneath his Wings,’’ and more than once by some of the biggest jackets. they had played that hymn. ‘‘Yellow papers in this country: U.S.A. Today, I want to see how our Air Force oper- roses and his Colt 45 that he gave to New York Times, L.A. Times. People ates at Greenland. I have wanted to do May 16, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H5279 that all my life, since when I had a Forces the Expeditionary Medal by my- Then it says staffers for Senate Repub- young commander who said, ‘‘I am self; no help in the Senate, none, no- licans who oppose inclusion of all these sending you to Thule, Greenland, Dor- body.’’ social agendas, the HIV ban, the homo- nan, if you don’t shape up.’’ So I am They fought me. Senior four stars sexual ban, the ban on Hustler maga- going to go up there to see one of our fought me in the Pentagon, but I was zine on military bases, PX’s, and com- young men and women up there who there to meet Colonel Pickett, whose missaries. was on one of our key flights with one son, Lieutenant Colonel Pickett, was It says those who oppose it said they of our C–141 aircraft, the stretch B executed with a bullet to the back of gained assurances from the House GOP model that is aging. his head by the Communist FMLN, the leadership that at least the AIDS pro- This is what I did all the time as a Faribundo Marti, down in El Salvador. vision would be eliminated. Oh, they regular back-bencher, a minority mem- I met his grandson. I listened to them are not so sure about going back to ber activist, a ranking minority mem- play taps standing on his grave at Ar- George Washington and Ronald Reagan ber, and now on the Permanent Select lington, the only one of our 21 men and George Bush’s homosexual ban. Committee on Intelligence, and chair- killed in a battle with communism, None of my leaders better have done man of Subcommittee on Military Per- where we were not going to give them this. I went to all of their staffer here, sonnel, I know what I am doing on this decorations for even showing up, just my pal Mr. ARMEY’s staff, my class- floor, Mr. Speaker, when I put forward an Expeditionary Medal. mate from my comeback in 1984, TOM an amendment not to have homo- None of these reporters were with DELAY’s staff, another member of the sexuals in the military. me. They do not know anything about class of 1984. I said, did anybody talk to It won so big in full committee they the military, anyway. They do not them, to the L.A. Times, to Norman did not even vote, and it won so big know that my heart goes out to these Kempster and tell anyone? here Wednesday nobody would chal- thousand people who have been given a Well, actually, it is the Senate staff lenge me with a vote, but behind the slow, long death sentence with a fatal saying this, not Members, staffers say- scenes they are talking about dumping venereal disease; no matter how they ing our leadership is going to dump on it in conference, in a secret star Cham- caught it, that is what it is, it is syphi- DORNAN. Well, I am a conferee this ber session, with Senators who either lis II, and it is fatal. time. This is not like the appropria- had never served or do not work their And they all know that they serve in tions bill where Republicans gutted out tail off the way I do visiting with the the military, restricted in duty, not for the first time in 20 years that I men and women in the field at all worldwide deployable, not deployable know of, undid public law that was fair ranks, from sailors and boot camp anywhere, never again to be trained. to men and women in the military. Lis- young men going through paratrooper All their combat training, if they had ten to this. Here is why I am going to training in Benning or Special Forces it, has gone down the drain. one hun- make my case in conference and take senior heroic Delta Force master ser- dred thousand healthy men and women names. Nothing says we have to be se- geants and first sergeants. have been discharged, Mr. Speaker, and cret in conference. I visited the graves of our two Medal we politically protect a little group of ‘‘African Armies Weakened by AIDS of Honor winners, Randy Shugart and 1,000, all because of the homosexual Virus.’’ This is in the Stars and Stripes Gary Gordon, Gary up in the land of his lobby trying to drive the agenda here. May 5. Weakened is hardly the word for birth in Lincoln, ME, Shugart born in it, Mr. Speaker. Zimbabwe, the b 1930 Lincoln, NE, but buried up in Carlisle, Zimbabwean Army has been declared PA. I took my son Mark to both of Let me just tick off some items here. by the United Nations no longer ac- their graves, so he could see what he- Item this month—World News Wash- ceptable for deployable duty. That roes were sent to their death by a stu- ington Post. Spread of AIDS in China means more duty for us. Do you know pid foreign policy in the filthy alleys of Alarms the Chinese. The prediction why? Three out of every four soldiers, Mogadishu. here is identical to the prediction I officers, enlisted men, NCO’s are in- I only learned in the last few weeks brought to the floor 10 year ago about fected with the AIDS virus. They are that they held up the arms and legs of Bangkok, Thailand and the Indian all going to die within the next few our men to show to the crowd. I saw cities, huge population centers along years. The former commander is dying pictures this week of young punks the Ganges, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta of AIDS, the commander before him is wearing the sunglasses of our aviators, and it has all happened in southern dead of AIDS and he has the AIDS or Durant’s crew after they had mur- Asia, it has all happened in Thailand. virus, the current commander, three dered all of them. Durant, fortunately, Look at this article here. None of the out of four. came home. I met with him at Fort centers know anything about this but How about Kenya? Uganda? They are Knox. It is just amazing that people it is in the papers today. pushing 70 percent, or 6 our of every 10. will ascribe to me motives for what I In the L.A. Times today, Mr. Speak- How about Thailand, 3 or 4 out of every am doing without ever talking to a er: 10 soldiers in Thailand infected with man or woman in uniform. ‘‘House Okays Defense Bill with Dor- the AIDS virus. When we test people I called a smart-alecky reporter, nan Provisions.’’ They say that I have coming to our command and staff David, and I will not mention his whole renewed the ban on abortion. I did not schools, artillery schools, armor name, he writes for Armed Forces renew anything. It is law. Clinton was schools, if they test HIV positive, we Journal International. He starts off forced to sign it on February 10. It is send them home. The armies around and says, ‘‘Dornan is now a bad joke law. The other side brought it up. The the world are being ruined by the AIDS because he has done all the social stuff same people who want us to have so- virus. in the military.’’ I got him on the called partial birth execution style or- Am I not entitled to say I want my phone, he was very respectful last ganized crime. I agree with some Ital- military mercifully with honorable dis- night, I called him from an Intel secure ian-Americans who called me and said, charges and the best medical treat- phone, because we had a briefing going ‘‘BOB, we love you, please don’t use the ment in the world hopefully, if people up there about the dangerous world we word Mafia. It is an unfair word.’’ It is would work with me, the same doctors, live in, and I said, ‘‘Where do you get organized crime. It is in every country. the same 35 to $40,000 a year spent on off? Have you worn a uniform?’’ ‘‘No, I It is organized crime in Moscow and each of these 1,000 people that have it haven’t. You have got me there.’’ they call it Mafia. We ought to just in the military, I am entitled to say, if ‘‘Where do you get off telling me that call it organized crime unless it is Sic- it is micro-redeployability for other and ripping me up in the press?’’ I said, ily where it is specifically Mafia. But people, even though it is only a thou- ‘‘I’m not bothered by the heat. I kind this is ridiculous, what they write. I sand, a percentage of a percentage of like Harry Truman’s line, take the did not bring up the abortion issue. point in the world where there are only heat or move on, but you don’t follow HIV, I am right. Homosexuals in the 191 nations and less than 100 fit for me through the Pentagon, you don’t go military. I am right. Then it says the U.N. duty, where they even have to the funeral with me at Arlington, bill would renew provisions contained trained and disciplined military, every where I got 5,000 people the Armed in previous defense bills. No; it is law. Nation that is X’ed off by the United H5280 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 16, 1996 Nations, by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, it imperils the future of the society that EXCERPT FROM RECORD OF MAY 10, 1996 means U.S. men and women who will condones us. The Holy See completely ‘‘Admiral Boorda, thank you for your very never be deployed with AIDS, the AIDS supports the position taken by the car- kind remarks. As our Chief of Naval Oper- virus, they are out when they get dinals of the United States and the Na- ations and as a personal friend of the AIDS, the HIV AIDS virus, that means tional conference of Catholic Bishops. Bulkeley family, we really appreciate your more deployability for us on a macro deep concern, your compassion, and personal Today, Mr. Speaker, in Lincoln, NE, kindness from all of us. Thank you again. level. that same town where Medal of Honor For everyone, please sit back and relax and Look at this item. Column from last winner Randy Shugart was born 37 let me tell you a story about a very special year by Jeffrey Hart. I just found it in years ago, today several dozen Catho- man. Typical of the Admiral, he would want my records. He writes about Michael lics were excommunicated for belong- me to come to the point, so this is what he Warner, this is a friend, Jeffrey Hart’s ing to Planned Parenthood, a phony really wanted you to know. He had no re- column, an intelligent fellow who is Playboy magazine group called Catho- grets of his life, that he lives a long time, HIV negative but a homosexual activ- lics for a Free Choice and several other married the woman he loved, raised a family to be proud of, and served a Navy second to ist, he said, why gay men are having groups, about a dozen groups. The bish- risky sex. none.’’ op there is named Fabian Bruskwitz. Mr. Speaker, I pause here in Peter On the assumption that the Voice, a The clerical holy gauntlet has been Bulkeley’s opening eulogy to remind you and New York City weekly, is not part of thrown down, Mr. Speaker. anyone listening to this Chamber proceeding your regular conservative reading list, I had hoped to come to the floor to- that Ronald Reagan asked me to do things I will give you a brief outline of Mr. night to talk about happy things. Tom like this, that I may have my weird detrac- Warner’s startling article. Warner re- Tracy, a friend of mine, is a distin- tors who do not understand why I am con- ports that among large numbers of ho- cerned about the social decay of our country, guished Irish-American leader. I have why I want even defense publications like mosexuals, the risk of death is now got his great tribute in front of me, part of the emotional appeal of sex, as Armed Forces Journal International, or Roll how he has honored all Irish-Ameri- Call, or the Hill, Marty, why I want you to something experienced and shared, and cans. I am going to save this for next pay attention to what Billy Graham said, that sex under the threat of death is, week and do Tommy Tracy right. poised on the edge of self-destruction. That well, better sex. I will close on this item, Mr. Speak- is why I am doing this. I want people to hear More about that when I do my rebut- er. Time magazine, April 29. My friend these words about a real hero. Why no one tal to Mr. GUNDERSON next Wednesday. showed up from this administration, unbe- from Crossfire, Michael Kinsley, did Look at this, Mr. Speaker. Baby lievably. The Army did send their No. 2 man, dozens of shows with him. He says: flushed down the toilet of a Northwest General Reimer’s deputy. Airlines airplane. Flight 25. Did you ‘‘Character is a tempting issue and I went to another tribute a few weeks read where they found a little baby theme for the Republicans. Part of the later. It was not written up in the Hill or strapped in its seat at the tragic answer lies with the media. Skeptical Armed Forces Journal International. It was scrutiny of Presidents, it seems, is on a not written up there. But I went to a cere- Valujet crash of Flight 592? mony at Arlington last Sunday where I was Well, here is a little baby that was permanent upward ratchet. This is a good thing by and large but it is rough given some small piece of thank-you for get- not killed in a crash on God’s call but ting 5,000 warriors—men and plenty of the mother on a plane from L.A. to Ma- on any incumbent President. Part of women—the Armed Forces Expeditionary nila at the Japanese stop, a big Boeing the answer lies with Clinton himself. Medal for what they did in El Salvador. No 747 of Northwest Airlines, the police Not that his moral failings are worse Senators, no Congressmen except myself, no- find a baby. It appeared to be 2 days than other politicians.’’ Whoa, Mi- body from the administration. As a matter old. Was it born on board? Was it car- chael, do not put me in that pack. of fact, the Senate and some strange block- ‘‘But his relative youth which is not age at the highest levels of the Pentagon did ried on board dead or alive, then dis- not want these 5,000 male and female war- posed of? Was it wrapped in the toilet his fault and his occasional callous- ness, which is his fault, deprive him of riors to get that medal. And now I have paper before the flight even left L.A.? kicked open the door and we are going to get We just do not know. This is last Fri- gravitas.’’ My 4 years of Latin tells me some Bronze Stars and some combat infan- day. Northwest is working with the that means heaviness, weight, serious- try badges and combat medical badges for legal authorities. Plane was filled with ness. ‘‘The anonymous novel,’’ which these people. Nobody showed up there. A passengers, 349. Two hundred sixty-six my wife is reading, ‘‘Primary Colors, is beautiful Sunday, playing taps from the of them left the plane. Then for hours especially good on the way Clinton’s grave of Army Colonel Pickett. I got to meet bad qualities and good qualities are his dad, a retired Army Colonel Picket. they had to hold the other 83 pas- How did Colonel Picket die? On his knees sengers there and finally they let them two sides of the same coin. His ability to deliver a moving speech on great with a Communist bullet from the FMLN go on to Manila. All of that because of shot into the back of his head, killed this a little baby a few hours or a couple of occasions is related to his ability to young enlisted man lying wounded on the days old, one little baby, part of the talk utter baloney with seeming sin- ground, the copilot Captain Dawson was al- umbilical cord was still attached. How cerity. Reagan was a great commu- ready dead in the cockpit of their helicopter. is that baby any different than what nicator. Clinton, his opponents say When did that take place? January 1991. people in this House, including 33 dismissively, is a masterly politician. Nobody noticed because a week later the air war of Desert Storm started. Democrats who have Catholic in their What’s the difference?’’ Kinsley goes on. ‘‘His enormous hun- I will close without any more interrup- biographies, how is that any different tions, just sit back, as Peter Bulkeley says, from killing that little baby with its ger for approval is what has led him to and listen to this story of a man who was a head held in the birth canal, distress- chase voters and to chase women and legend, and when I told BUCK MCKEON of our ing the mother, I do not know how that his enormous capacity for empathy House that I could not believe nobody was is supposed to help the mother, she is helps explain why he is apparently so there, he said, ‘‘You mean he outlived his in a forced birth situation, and they good at both. The empathy is genuine fame.’’ take the little baby’s brain out with and for all the mockery of ‘I feel your He said, ‘‘If Ron Brown had lived to be Ad- miral Bulkeley’s age, in his eighties, would suction equipment. pain,’ for all the telling parallels be- tween Clinton’s political and personal anybody have remembered him or his less Here is an item, Mr. Speaker, ‘‘Vati- than 4 years as Commerce Secretary?’’ can Calls Clinton Abortion Veto Brutal promiscuity, it is his most valuable No, I guess if you die young, on the line, Act of Aggression.’’ Here is the exact gift as a national leader.’’ you get buildings named after you. But if statement on April 19, the day I am And Congressman BOB DORNAN wrote God gives you a good long life and a beau- out, that Admiral Boorda is speaking in the margin, ‘‘Ugh.’’ tiful family, only a few remember and show at Admiral Bulkeley’s funeral, the We have got a tough time in this up to say goodbye. same day, Patriot’s Day in the United country. I have never seen so many im- Peter continues: States. This in practice amounts to an portant people dying in any adminis- When I pressed dad on ‘no regrets,’ he sheepishly told me with a twinkle in his eye incredibly brutal act of aggression tration and I am sure there is nothing that that wasn’t quite altogether true. And against the preborn. The fact that this related or conspiratorial about it but he finally said, I do have one regret, Pete. I Presidential decision legalizes this in- we have got a rough 173 days ahead of should have gotten a bigger boat. A de- human procedure morally and ethically us to the next election. stroyer is not too bad, but he was the kind of May 16, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H5281 guy who could have handled a super carrier. ‘‘As has already been stated by the Amer- abortion? Ronald Reagan’s California busi- So if you are contemplating a bigger boat, ican cardinals, this presidential decision is ness chums bought him a house while he was you know what to do. ‘more akin to infanticide than to abortion,’ President, to barely a peep of protest; yet we I will not have in my lifetime a greater and thus it is not surprising that 65 percent are in our fourth year of pawing through the honor than today as an officer in our Navy of those who call themselves ‘pro-choice’ are much smaller financial favors Clinton’s Ar- and as his son, because I get to talk about opposed to partial-birth abortions,’’ he said. kansas business chums tried to do him 14 my dad. Admiral Boorda, Admiral Larson, Navarro-Valls explained to reporters at the years ago when he was Governor. Superintendent at Annapolis, Admiral Trost, Vatican that the bill vetoed by Clinton Yes, of course, repeat after your mother: General Dubia, the number two man in the would have banned a procedure used in late- ‘‘ ‘Everybody does it’ is no excuse.’’ But why Army, General Blott, Assistant Secretary term abortions. The spokesman, who is a is Clinton’s ‘‘character’’ such a liability to Perry, Assistant Secretary, Medal of Honor medical doctor, said the procedure involves him, when by any reasonable reckoning his recipients, two of them from Army, Viet- the partial delivery of the fetus before sur- professional and personal failings average nam, another cause for freedom that Reagan gical scissors are stabbed into the base of its out to a level of moral compromise so typi- and I both believed in, and so did Admiral head. The brains are removed by suction, al- cal among Presidents and presidential can- Bulkeley, representatives of the Senate, lowing for easier delivery of the rest of the didates that it almost amounts to a job qual- none were there, and the House, one, mem- fetus. ification? Part of the answer lies in Republican strat- bers of the diplomatic corps, a couple, allied Clinton’s decision to veto the bill passed egy. With not much cooking on the foreign representatives from France, they were by Congress is ‘‘shameful,’’ the spokesman front, and with the economic issues that usu- there, Philippines, Great Britain, members said, and ‘‘in practice, amounts to an incred- of our armed forces, all of them in uniform, ally decide elections divisible into those that ibly brutal act of aggression against inno- look pretty good right now (growth, unem- friends from Hacketstown, New Jersey, and cent human life and the inalienable right of around the globe, all of those who served and ployment, inflation, the deficit) and those the unborn.’’ for which the Republicans have nothing knew Admiral John Bulkeley, and most espe- Naturally, this situation makes even more cially my mom, my sisters, Joan, Rigina and much to suggest (wage stagnation, middle- urgent a greater solidarity in defense of the class angst), ‘‘character’’ is naturally a Diana and their husbands, my brother at the life of the unborn who cannot speak for organ, beautiful, my wife, all eight of the tempting theme. Part of the answer lies with themselves,’’ he said. the media. Skeptical scrutiny of Presidents, Admiral’s grandchildren, we have come to- Navarro-Valls said the fact that the United gether to honor a great man, a patriot, a leg- it seems, is on a permanent upward ratchet. States will hold a presidential election in This is a good thing, by and large, but rough end, a hero in the truest sense. A husband, a November played no part in the Vatican’s de- father, a friend; a simple man that did his on the incumbent. And part of the answer cision to comment on Clinton’s veto. lies with Clinton himself. Not that his moral duty as God gave him the ability to do, and ‘‘The Holy See cannot say nothing,’’ he the man that tried to keep a low profile, but failings are worse than other politicians’. said. ‘‘This is an ethical and moral problem But his relative youth (which is not his somehow always ended up in the limelight of which is very clear and very serious.’’ fault) and his occasional callousness (which life. The same day the Vatican issued a state- Admiral John Bulkeley is a legend. He de- is) deprive him of gravitas. ment condemning the Israeli bombing of a The anonymous novel Primary Colors is voted his entire life to his country and to his refugee camp in Lebanon, killing many civil- especially good on the way Clinton’s bad Navy. Six decades of his life were spent in ians, he said. ‘‘We must also say something qualities and good qualities are two sides of the active defense of America. Even after re- about this attack on defenseless, unborn ba- the same coin. His ability to deliver a mov- tirement in 1988, he remained engaged in the bies.’’ ing speech on great occasions is related to direction of our Navy and our country. he Raymond L. Flynn, the U.S. ambassador to his ability to talk utter baloney with seem- represented the Navy and the veterans at the Vatican, said he was informed April 18 ing sincerity. (Reagan was a ‘‘great commu- Normandy during the D-Day celebrations, ‘‘of the Holy See’s disappointment with the nicator.’’ Clinton, his opponents say laying wreaths and flowers of his and our president’s veto.’’ dismissively, is a ‘‘masterly politician.’’ fallen comrades. He provided running par- What’s the difference?) His enormous hunger allel to Utah Beach, and picking up wounded [From Time, Apr. 29, 1996] for approval is what has led him to chase soldiers from the sinking minesweeper Tide EVERYBODY DOES IT voters and to chase women, and his enor- and the Destroyer Cory. mous capacity for empathy helps explain His World War II exploits would not be (By Michael Kinsley) why he is apparently so good at both. The complete without the mention of his love for In every presidential election from 1968 empathy is genuine. And—for all the mock- destroyers, of which he would command through 1988, the Democrats nominated a ery of ‘‘I feel your pain,’’ for all the telling many in his years to come. As Normandy op- goody-goody (Hubert Humphrey, George parallels between Clinton’s political and per- erations wound up, he got his first large ship, McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, sonal ‘‘promiscuity’’—it is his most valuable the Destroyer Endicott, a month after D- Michael Dukakis). And they lost every elec- gift as a national leader. Day. I told this story about the British gun- tion during those two decades except in 1976, It is hard to turn this point into a useful boats, the two German Corvettes charging in when the Republicans also nominated a campaign slogan. ‘‘Vote for Clinton. He’s Not as dawn’s light broke. I told that story. I goody-goody (Gerald Ford). In 1992 the So Bad.’’ ‘‘Re-elect the President. He’s No want to use every minute here. Peter tells it Democrats finally got—well, you might say Worse Than All the Others.’’ Or ‘‘Bill Clin- better than I did. cynical or you might say serious. They de- ton: You Can’t Have the French Fries With- When I asked about dad about that action, cided they wanted to win this time. So they out the Grease.’’ I don’t recommend this he said ‘‘What else could I do but engage? nominated a man who is no one’s idea of a theme to the Democratic National Commit- You fight, you win. That is the reputation of goody-goody. They nominated a slippery pol- tee. But it is pretty close to the truth. our Navy, then, now, and in the future. You itician. Not coincidentally, he is also a mor- As a Clinton supporter of moderate but fight, you win.’’ ally flawed character with personal and (per- steady enthusiasm, I’ve been bewildered by haps) financial peccadilloes. those liberals who’ve veered from wild ardor [From Catholic News Service] Bill Clinton had not been President more in 1992 to foaming dislike in the years since. VATICAN CALLS CLINTON ABORTION VETO than five minutes before many Democrats The intense hatred Clinton evokes among ‘‘BRUTAL ACT OF AGGRESSION’’ began reacting in horror to the realization conservatives is less puzzling but still a bit (By Cindy Wooden) that their man was not a plaster saint. Many strange. Not since F.D.R., probably, has a President Bill Clinton’s veto of the bill Republicans, meanwhile, seemed resentful Democratic President inspired such emo- banning partial-birth abortions ’’in practice that the Democrats had stolen the election tions in his opponents. But the F.D.R. com- amounts to an incredibly brutal act of ag- through the devious device of nominating parison merely adds to the puzzle, since Clin- gression’’ against the unborn, the Vatican someone who knew how to win. ton’s agenda is far more modest and less said. It is pretty clear now that even if Clinton ideologically charged. ‘‘The fact that this presidential decision is re-elected, he is destined never to enjoy a Maybe an explanation lies in that old joke legalizes this inhuman procedure morally period, as even Richard Nixon did, of genuine about academia, where, it is said, ‘‘the dis- and ethically imperils the future of a society and heartfelt popularity while in office. The putes are so vicious because the stakes are that condones, it,’’ said Vatican spokesman best he can probably hope for is a couple of so small.’’ The differences between Bill Clin- Joaquin Navarro-Valls. weeks of golden-glow nostalgia when he ton’s agenda and Bob Dole’s agenda are neg- In its April 19 edition, the Vatican news- leaves office in 2001 and a historical reevalu- ligible in comparison with our political cul- paper printed an Italian translation of the ation some decades down the road. It is for- ture’s huge need for rhetoric and disagree- April 16 letter written by eight U.S. car- tunate for Clinton that our voting system ment between now and November. That dinals and the president of the National Con- doesn’t measure intensity of feelings, be- means it’s probably going to be an especially ference of Catholic Bishops condemning Clin- cause his opponents dislike him with a seeth- vicious campaign. ton’s veto of the bill. ing passion while his supporters can rarely ‘‘The Holy See completely supports the po- muster more than grudging acquiescence. [From the Stars and Stripes, May 5, 1996] sition taken by the cardinals of the United But why is that? Is Clinton’s opportunistic AFRICAN ARMIES WEAKENED BY AIDS VIRUS States and the National Conference of Catho- floppery on, say, balancing the budget any MANGOCHI, MALAWI.—In some African ar- lic Bishops,’’ Navarro-Valls said April 19. more egregious than Bob Dole’s on, say, mies, half of the soldiers are infected with H5282 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 16, 1996 the virus which causes AIDS, a conference on pired but an ideal which we have never Fund in a brief for a black student de- the disease was told 24 April. fully attained in our life as a Nation. nied admission to the segregated Uni- On a continent plagued by Acquired Im- On Saturday of this week, May 18, we versity of Oklahoma Law School, stat- mune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the mili- will mark the 100th anniversary of the ed that principle unequivocally. Classi- tary faces extra risks and in some countries fications and distinctions based on race like Congo, the United Nations estimates Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy ver- every second soldier is infected with the HIV sus Ferguson, the decision which rep- or color have no moral or legal validity virus that causes the disease. resents the culmination of disappoint- in our society. They are contrary to ‘‘Prevalence rates in many armies of the ment in the struggle for equality be- our Constitution and laws. developing world, especially in Africa, are fore the law during the 19th century. b 1945 exceptionally high,’’ Malawian Defense Min- In Plessy by a 7–1 majority, the Su- Marshall’s support for the color-blind ister Justin Malewezi told an AIDS con- preme Court of the United States held principle, which he later, unfortu- ference for high-ranking military officers that Louisiana’s law requiring rail- from 13 South and East African countries. nately, abandoned, is vividly revealed roads to provide racially separate ac- He said highly trained army and air force by Constance Baker Motley, senior commodations did not violate either officers seemed to be particularly at risk and United States district judge for the that countries might find it hard to train the 13th or the 14 amendments. Justice southern district of New York, in an enough men to replace them. Henry Billings Brown, in delivery the account included in Tinsley Yar- ‘‘When the military is weakened, so too is court’s opinion, explained the dif- borough’s biography of Justice Harlan. the security of the country it is intended to ference between a distinction based on defend,’’ Malewezi said, opening the three- Judge Motley recalled her days work- race and prohibited discrimination. ing with Marshall at the NAACP as fol- day meeting in the northern town of He said as follows: Mangochi. lows: Many countries in the region estimate up A statute which implies merely a legal dis- Marshall had a Bible, to which he to a tenth of the population is infected with tinction between the white and colored races turned during his most depressed mo- human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV). has no tendency to destroy the legal equality ments. Marshall would read aloud pas- The World Health Organization director for of the two races or to reestablish a state of sages from Harlan’s amazing dissent. I involuntary servitude. Africa, Ebrahim Samba, said soldiers were a do not believe we ever filed a major high-risk group because they were young, Brown went on to observe that in the brief in the pre-Brown days in which a mainly between the ages of 15 and 24, sexu- nature of things, the 14th Amendment portion of that opinion was not quoted. ally active and away from home for long could not have been intended to abolish Marshall’s favorite quotation was our stretches at a time. distinctions based upon color. Accord- Constitution is color-blind. It became ‘‘They are often in search of recreation to ing to Brown, the 14th Amendment relieve stress and loneliness,’’ he said in a our basic creed. message read to the meeting. challenged in Plessy reduces itself to Marshall admired the courage of Har- ‘‘They feel vulnerable in a profession which the question of whether the statute of lan more than any justice who had ever excuses or encourages risk-taking. Off-duty Louisiana is a reasonable regulation. sat on the Supreme Court. Even Chief soldiers can be counted on to have money, Brown then concluded: Justice Earl Warren’s forthright and but not necessarily condoms, in their pock- We cannot say that a law which authorizes moving decision for the court in Brown ets.’’ or even requires the separation of the races did not affect Marshall in the same Samba said soldiers often paid prostitutes is unreasonable. way. Earl Warren was writing for a for sex or slept with women from the local This is a shameful decision. And al- unanimous Supreme Court. Harlan was community wherever they were based or de- a solitary and lonely figure writing for ployed. Drug pushers also preyed on the mili- though the segregationist doctrine em- tary. bodied in Plessy has been rejected by posterity. Stuart Kingma, a UN adviser on AIDS in the courts most strikingly in Brown In the face of the vociferous opposi- the military, said Zimbabwe’s army had an versus Board of Education, the case it- tion to the Equal Opportunity Act, and HIV infection rate three to four times higher self has never been directly overruled. any other proposal to end the use of than that in the civilian population. Indeed, the core holding of Plessy that preferences, we would do well to re- One in two of the nearly 20 million people Government may make distinctions in member the long battle that was infected with the virus worldwide were in the treatment of its citizens based on fought to establish a legal order based sub-Saharan Africa, he said. on the principles set forth in justice Kingma listed Congo, Uganda, Gabon, their race remains the law of our land. Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy, Harlan’s dissent. Kenya and Zimbabwe as African countries Professor Andrew Carl, in his admira- where the situation in the military was par- which, is recognized as the most fa- ticularly bad. mous dissent in the history of Amer- ble history ‘‘The Color Blind Constitu- ican jurisprudence, has been vindicated tion,’’ identifies the centrality of the f by history but the principles so elo- color-blind principle to the civil rights quently articulated in that dissent has movement. Professor Carl says as fol- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT not finally been accepted by the courts. lows: The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. In words that would often be cited by The undeniable fact is that over a period of some 125 years, ending only in the late 1960s, SKEEN). Under the Speaker’s an- those seeking to overthrow the Jim nounced policy of May 12, 1995, the gen- the American civil rights movement first Crow system, Justice Harland pro- elaborated then held as its unvarying politi- tleman from Florida [Mr. CANADY] is nounced: cal objective a rule of law requiring the recognized for 60 minutes. Our Constitution is colorblind. The law re- color-blind treatment of individuals. Mr. CANADY of Florida. Mr. Speak- gards man as man and takes no account of In 1964, the U.S. Congress took a er, this evening I rise to address the his surroundings or of his color when his great stride forward toward the realiza- Equal Opportunity Act, legislation civil rights, as guaranteed by the supreme tion of that objective. With the passage which Senator DOLE and I introduced law of the land, are involved. of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Con- on July 27 of last year. Harlan found a Louisiana statute un- gress established a national policy This legislation will, if enacted, end constitutional because the Constitu- against discrimination based on race the use of race and gender preferences tion of the United States does not per- and sex. by the Federal Government in Federal mit any public authority to know the It is the supreme irony of the modern employment, Federal contracting, and race of those entitled to be protected in civil rights movement that this crown- in the administration of other Federal the enjoyment of their civil rights. ing achievement was so soon followed programs. Simply put, Government may not by the creation of a system of pref- The principles of equal treatment have regard to the race of its citizens erences based on race and gender, a and nondiscrimination on which this when the civil rights of those citizens system contrived first by administra- legislation is based are principles are involved. tive agencies and the Federal courts which are at the heart of the American The color-blind ideal was the touch- and then accepted and expanded by the experience. They embody an ideal stone of the American civil rights Congress. which generations of Americans have movement until the mid 1960’s. In 1947, The 1964 Civil Rights Act constituted honored and sought to realize, an ideal Thurgood Marshall, representing the an unequivocal statement that Ameri- to which we as a people have long as- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational cans should be treated as individuals