S6604 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 presidency for decades to come. But the commission’s plan. That was prin- The clerk will call the roll. even now, it is clear that President cipled compromise at work. The assistant legislative clerk pro- Reagan presided over, and helped bring Twenty-four years ago this week, ceeded to call the roll. about, enormous changes in America, Ronald Reagan had just clinched the Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask and in the world. delegates needed to win his party’s 1980 unanimous consent that the order for His unflinching opposition to com- Presidential nomination. It was a nom- the quorum call be rescinded. munism helped bring down the wall ination he had worked for for 12 years. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. FITZ- and bring about the end of the Soviet A newspaper reporter asked him GERALD). Without objection, it is so or- Union. For that, the world owes Ronald what he thought he needed to do next. dered. Reagan a great debt of gratitude. He replied that he wanted to dispel f Americans, and friends of America the notion that he was a hard-nosed TRIBUTE TO FORMER PRESIDENT throughout the world, are saddened by radical who would oppose compromise RONALD REAGAN President Reagan’s death. on principle. As he put it: Our hearts go out to the Reagan fam- You know, there are some people so im- Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I rise ily, especially Mrs. Reagan and the bued with their ideology that if they can’t today to pay tribute to the life and the Reagan children and grandchildren, as get everything they want, they’ll jump off legacy of former President Ronald well as to President and Mrs. Reagan’s the cliff with the flag flying. As governor, I Reagan. President Reagan served our friends. Even when someone has been found out that if I could get half a loaf, in- country with honor and distinction, stead of stalking off angrily, I’d take it. slipping away for a long time, as Presi- and I feel privileged to have the oppor- dent Reagan did, the final goodbye is Perhaps because he himself was a tunity to reflect on the contributions still heartbreaking. We wish them Democrat early in his life, President he made to our country and to the comfort in this time of great sorrow. Reagan never demonized his political world. In his 1987 autobiography, ‘‘Man of opponents—even when he disagreed Upon hearing the news of his death, I the House,’’ Tip O’Neill recalled the profoundly with them. thought back to the footprints he left When Tip O’Neill turned 70, President time President-elect Reagan visited on my memory. He was, indeed, one of Reagan hosted a reception for him at him in his office in early 1981. The the greatest leaders, I believe, of our the White House. There they were: the Speaker told the man who was soon to time, and I was honored to know him. opposing champions of laissez-faire ec- be President that in the House, Demo- President Reagan provided our coun- onomics and New Deal liberalism. crats and Republicans ‘‘are always try with an enormous amount of hope President Reagan toasted Tip O’Neill friends after 6 o’clock and on week- following a period of national remorse by saying: ends.’’ and confusion about the direction of For the next 6 years, until he retired, Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you our country and about its place in the Tip O’Neill recalled, President Reagan didn’t have one too, I would give mine away world. Let us not forget the context and go to hell with you. always began their phone conversa- into which he emerged to seize his tions by asking, ‘‘Tip, is it after 6 President Reagan and Tip O’Neill, I place in history and to move the o’clock?’’ am convinced, are reunited in heaven United States forward with a deter- It has been nearly 10 years since now. mination and an optimism about the As we prepare here in the Capitol to President Reagan wrote his courageous future that was so recently lacking. say our final goodbye to President letter to America telling us that he The ghost of Vietnam haunted our Reagan, let us remember his capacity had Alzheimer’s disease. foreign policy and the specter of Water- In the decade since President Reagan to see the best in everyone, including gate informed our politics. began his quiet withdrawal from public those whose political views differed The election of Ronald Reagan, how- life, the civility and personal decency starkly from his own. Let us remember ever, truly changed America. He in- that we associate with him seems, at that there is no dishonor in accepting a stilled hope that every American could times, to have all but disappeared from half a loaf. be optimistic about his or her future; In the months ahead and for as long much of our public discourse. The el- hope that communism would not en- as we are given the honor of serving in bows in politics have become sharper, dure and that freedom and democracy Congress, let us search and work for the words have become meaner—and could ultimately vanquish the forces principled compromises that serve the the accomplishments have become that sought to pull our country, and interests of the vast majority of Amer- scarcer. many others, into the abyss of despair icans. In that way, we can help to pre- Sadly, there is a tendency today to and hostility that permeated much of serve President Reagan’s great belief assume ill will and bad motives of the world; hope that personal freedom and hope that America’s best days are, those who belong to the other party— without the encumbrances of big gov- indeed, just ahead. or even another wing of one’s own ernment would revitalize the economy; I suggest the absence of a quorum. hope that the rejuvenated armed forces party. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The he would lead as Commander-in-Chief This decline of civility in politics and clerk will call the roll. public discourse is not good for Amer- The assistant legislative clerk pro- could make the United States once ica. It does not make us safer, or ceeded to call the roll. again truly the leader of the Free stronger. The PRESIDING OFFICER. In my World in a struggle for survival against President Reagan spoke to all that capacity as a Senator from the State of the Soviet Union. was good and decent in America. We Idaho, I ask unanimous consent that President Reagan’s eternal optimism would honor him by restoring decency the order for the quorum call be re- gave our country a renewed sense of to our politics. scinded. self, a belief that the American dream Ronald Reagan was a man who be- Without objection, it is so ordered. was possible and that every individual lieved deeply in his core principles. He had the opportunity to create his or f would not want any of us to com- her own success. Ronald Reagan be- promise our own core principles in his RECESS lieved that each new day was filled memory. But there is such a thing as The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under with high purpose and opportunity for principled compromise. President the previous order, the Senate stands accomplishment. He gave America Reagan understood that. He knew that in recess until the hour of 2:15 p.m. back the hope we had lost for many accommodation was needed to make Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:30 p.m., years. the system work. recessed until 2:16 p.m. and reassem- President Reagan’s leadership and Like many conservatives, President bled when called to order by the Pre- courage were central to ending the Reagan had some basic philosophical siding Officer (Mr. INHOFE). Cold War. He was certain that freedom qualms about Social Security. But he The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and democracy could prevail in all cor- appointed a bipartisan commission to Chair, in his capacity as a Senator ners of the globe if only the one coun- find ways to save Social Security from from the State of Oklahoma, suggests try with the capacity to do so would imminent insolvency—and he backed the absence of a quorum. step in and show the way.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6605 Many Americans who were not yet sense of political and social responsi- life of the greatest leader of the 20th born or were too young to understand bility. century and to express my sympathy to could not appreciate what this man ac- I was just a second-term congress- his wonderful and loyal family—in par- complished. The first half of the 20th man when President Reagan came into ticular, his loving wife and partner Century was marked by warfare on a office. Although a Democrat at the Nancy. global scale. The First World War—the time, I closely identified with his com- Nancy Reagan has always been an war to end all wars—had decimated mitment to lower taxes, limit govern- outstanding and inspirational role much of Europe. A generation was lost ment and rebuild the military. I shared model for our entire Nation. And that to the trenches and newly introduced President Reagan’s conservative phi- has never been more clearly displayed technologies of destruction such as the losophies, and he helped me, and mil- than through her wonderful courage machine gun and the tank. lions of other Americans, have a re- and love during the difficult journey The war that followed, World War II, stored faith in the purpose of our Gov- she and President Reagan traveled dur- managed to go well beyond its prede- ernment. ing the past decade. cessor, as the failure of European diplo- I also recall a time when President Like so many, I was inspired to actu- macy once again dragged the continent Reagan asked me to breakfast at the ally answer the call of public service into the horrors and devastation that White House. I, a second-term Con- because of then-Governor Ronald Rea- man continued to wrought. The epic gressman at the time, was certainly gan’s positive, principled message. In struggle against the forces of fascism, impressed. I had always been a conserv- 1976, I began as a young lieutenant in a struggle we remembered this past ative Democrat, and he had hoped that the Reagan revolution when I was weekend with the anniversary of the I would change parties, as he had done asked to chair Young Virginians for Normandy landings, was a fight when the Democratic Party ceased to Reagan. Today, I am still motivated to against evil in every sense of the word. represent the values he held dear. I de- work to advance his individual-empow- Its ending, however, set the stage for a clined his offer to do so at the time, ex- ering philosophy in government. new type of conflict—a conflict that plaining my strong desire to work to Ronald Reagan entered the political would take the second half of the cen- fix the Democratic Party from within. stage in 1964 with a speech which tury to resolve, mercifully without the The President knew better, telling me summed up a philosophy that would nuclear war that existed as the logical that the party was in the midst of a guide him through his Presidency two culmination of the stand-off that came transformation that would not be re- decades hence, and which turned the to be known as the cold war. versed any time soon. It took me more tide of world history. The skills, strengths and enormous years to fully appreciate the Presi- Mr. Reagan said in 1964, ‘‘You and I fortune that kept the cold war from dent’s wisdom. But appreciate it, I did, have a rendezvous with destiny. We can turning hot transcended, of course, and I followed his lead in abandoning preserve for our children this, the last multiple presidential administrations. the party of my youth in deference to best hope of man on Earth, or we can It was brought to its successful resolu- another. While I took a little longer to sentence them to take the first step tion, however, through the vision and change than he would have liked, he into a thousand years of darkness. If strength of exactly one man: President did provide me with much of the foun- we fail, at least let our children say of Reagan. Decades of conflict manage- dation as to why I needed to leave the us we justified our brief moment here. ment, in which experienced diplomats Democratic Party. I have always ap- We did all that could be done.’’ and elected officials sought primarily preciated his guidance, humility and Indeed, Ronald Wilson Reagan did to prevent nuclear war and to contain humor. have a rendezvous with destiny. Presi- the Soviet threat, had succeeded in I believe history will treat Ronald dent Reagan rejuvenated the spirit of preventing nuclear war. That was an Reagan well. He uplifted a frustrated America. His determined, optimistic incredible feat, to be sure. country through his optimism and leadership lit the torch of liberty and What set Ronald Reagan apart, how- hope. He changed a troubled world with allowed it to shine in the dark recesses ever, was his vision of a world without his devotion to the spread of freedom. of oppressed countries around the the nuclear stand-off that had become Ronald Reagan embodied the American world. an indelible image in the public psyche spirit, and our country and the world Ronald Reagan believed in the innate of virtually the entire world. What set are forever grateful for his service. goodness of mankind. He believed and Ronald Reagan apart was his visceral I offer my condolences to Mrs. advocated the wisdom of our country’s belief that the United States, and the Reagan and the entire family. They foundational principles. He believed freedom and prosperity it represented, have endured much heartache with his that given the opportunity, all men had to, and could, not just contain the illness, much grief with his passing, and women would seek freedom and lib- threat but eliminate it without the and much joy with his life. My erty and with it unleash creativity, in- awful specter of nuclear war coming to thoughts and prayers are with them in genuity, hard work, and economic fruition. this difficult time. growth. Derided by his opponents both here May God bless Ronald Reagan and He touched deeply the hearts and and abroad as a dangerous cowboy, his memory. minds of Americans through his genu- President Reagan stood firm in his be- Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. President, I inely believed, commonsense conserv- liefs and led the country to victory. He suggest the absence of a quorum. ative words of encouragement—from believed, correctly, and at variance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. his first inaugural speech in 1981, to his with the views of many a university CRAPO). The clerk will call the roll. inspirational State of the Union Ad- professor and politician, that the The assistant legislative clerk pro- dresses, to his moving memorial trib- United States could force the Soviet ceeded to call the roll. ute to our lost Challenger explorer, to Union over the cliff on which it rested, Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I ask his strong demand to tear down the buttressed on the backs of the millions unanimous consent that the order for wall of oppression, to his passionate it held in its tyrannical grip. the quorum call be dispensed with. tribute to the defenders of liberty at This was a truly great man. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Normandy 20 years ago this week. Limited government, lower taxes, objection, it is so ordered. Those were the words he delivered. and individual responsibility will also Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I rise to Those words which he delivered are be part of President Reagan’s legacy. speak as if in morning business. now as much a part of the fabric of He believed that each American and The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are in America as the threads of our flag, Old each community were the best prob- morning business. The Senator is rec- Glory. Lee Greenwood’s song, ‘‘God lem-solvers. Rather than making Gov- ognized. Bless the U.S.A.,’’ was an anthem to ernment bigger to address the chal- Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, my col- Ronald Reagan’s renewed America. lenges our country faced, Reagan stood leagues and Americans, President Ron- Historians will surely discuss and de- firm in his commitment to the con- ald Reagan will be returning to Wash- bate the impact of Ronald Reagan’s 8 tributions that could be made through ington tomorrow for the very last years as President for generations to personal empowerment and a renewed time. I rise to honor the memory and come. But there is no doubt his legacy

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I He said as follows, ‘‘We have come to his convictions, exported and advanced don’t think anyone at that time could this field to celebrate the triumph of democracy to continents, countries, have predicted the sweeping changes an idea—that freedom will eventually and people yearning to taste the sweet that were about to take place. When triumph over tyranny. It is and always nectar of liberty. Ronald Reagan was elected, he ushered will be a warning to those who would He knew the evil communistic em- in a new era of government so profound usurp the rights of others. Time will pire could not be sustained and would it became known as the ‘‘Reagan Revo- find them beaten. The beacon of free- collapse under the weight of a deter- lution.’’ That was an exciting time in dom shines here for all who will see, in- mined effort to challenge the Soviets Washington. spiring free men and captives alike, on their failed policies, both foreign As I became assistant majority lead- and no wall, no curtain, nor totali- and domestic. He reversed decades of er and began a new life—Howard Baker tarian state can shut it out.’’ policy calling for containment of that was the majority leader. The day be- To put this in context, when Ronald oppressive tyrannical system, and he fore I was to marry my wife Catherine, Reagan became our 40th President, boldly asserted that the advancement Howard called and asked me to replace Americans had lost their faith in our of freedom and liberty must be Amer- him on a trip to China because Deng leaders and in the role of America in ica’s No. 1 foreign policy objective. In- Xiaoping wanted to understand what the world. Government at home was re- deed, he believed that it is our solemn ‘‘Reaganism’’ meant. My wife Cath- straining its citizens with oppressive moral obligation to do so. erine and I were married on December taxation and burdensome regulations. Now we are seeing his greatest leg- 30, and we left for China on December Our national malaise led to histori- acy. Hundreds of millions of free peo- 31. To prepare for those talks, I re- cally high unemployment, high inter- ple, from the Baltics in Lithuania, Es- viewed all of President Reagan’s ac- est rates and inflation, low produc- tonia, Latvia through Poland, Hun- tions as Governor of California and his tivity, and a stagnant stock market. gary, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Re- promises made during the election. I Our moral authority around the public, Bulgaria and Romania, all peo- was honored to be offered the oppor- world had been eroding, and confidence ple once repressed behind the Iron Cur- tunity to explain and defend his record. in the ideals of liberty and democracy tain are now joining NATO. They are When Congress convened in 1981, were replaced by the fear of expanding true friends and allies. Yes, they are those of us in the Senate leadership tyranny, communism, and repression. breathing that invigorating wind of went down almost weekly for meetings America yearned for a leader who freedom. at the White House. Occasionally, could change the direction of our Na- One of the last public statements President Reagan came up to Howard tion and make them proud of our herit- Ronald Reagan made was in 1983. He Baker’s office as Majority Leader to age once again. Ronald Reagan an- provided us with a vision which will meet with us. I don’t think any other swered that call. guide us now and in the future. Ronald President has done that as often as Many tributes this week rightfully Reagan said, ‘‘History comes and his- point to President Reagan’s unwaver- Ronald Reagan. President Reagan al- tory goes, but principles endure and en- ways tackled very serious subjects in ing optimism and belief in the inner sure future generations to defend lib- strength of Americans, and indeed all these meetings, but he kept us relaxed. erty—not as a gift from the govern- He usually began our discussions in the human beings. He understood that they ment, but a blessing from our Creator. Cabinet room with a joke or a story. could be motivated and inspired to Here in America the lamp of individual His leadership brought out the best of higher ideals with our competitive na- conscience burns bright. By that I ture. No more hand-wringing. He want- all of us. know we will all be guided to that During his administration we were ed action. Indeed, he challenged us to dreamed of day when no one wields a look no further than his administra- able to accomplish a lot for the Amer- sword and no one drags a chain.’’ ican people and set the Nation and the tion and ourselves for solutions. He It is Ronald Reagan’s inspiring char- world on a new course. Much has been said, ‘‘If not us, who? If not now, acter, courage, unflinching adherence said already about the mark President when?’’ to principles, policies, and eloquence Reagan left on our national defense Beyond his unshakable faith in man- that brought forth a renaissance for kind was his consistent adherence to the United States of America, a rebirth and foreign policy. Those were his principles which were unfashionable of freedom, and the world also experi- greatest contributions as President, and often scorned when he came to of- enced that renaissance at a crucial and I viewed those decisions from a fice but today which are solidly em- juncture in history. He fanned the unique advantage point. I was sworn in as chairman of the braced and winning the minds of people flames of freedom and that torch of lib- Senate Appropriations Defense Sub- across our country and throughout the erty will continue to burn brightly by committee just days before President world. He acted on his beliefs that gov- his inspiration and example. We all Reagan took the oath of office. He im- ernment interference should be re- thank God for blessing the United mediately began to move toward a 600- strained and that free people should be States and the world with Ronald ship Navy, new aircraft development, unrestrained, without limits. We pros- Reagan. pered and we thrived with the creation President Reagan, as you finally and space-based missile defense sys- of jobs and opportunities. enter the gates of that shining city on tems. President Reagan understood One of my very favorite principles of the hill you always talked about, rest that the first thing we had to do was President Reagan was declared in his peacefully, knowing you left the world restore our military capability. The 1985 State of the Union address when he a much better place than it was when Soviets were outspending us at that said, ‘‘Every dollar the government you arrived. For that, the free people time and stealing our secrets. The does not take from us, every decision it of your Nation are eternally grateful. President took control of that situa- does not make for us, will make our I yield the floor. tion, and in the years since President economy stronger, our lives more The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Reagan left office, either Senator abundant and our future more free.’’ ator from Alaska. INOUYE or I have been chairman of the And so it is. Through tax cuts that Mr. STEVENS. I ask unanimous con- Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. return tax dollars to those whose hard sent that following my remarks Sen- Each of us has carried forth the vision work and ingenuity earned them, to re- ator KYL be recognized and then Sen- President Reagan had for our military. ducing burdensome regulations, Presi- ator BROWNBACK. History has overlooked President dent Reagan presided over the begin- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Reagan’s personal commitment to ning of the most robust peace expan- objection, it is so ordered. arms control, however. In 1985, the sion of our economy in the history of Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I come President supported the creation of the our Nation. to the Senate today to join others to Arms Control Observer Group in the

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California, he was raised on the words arms control treaties were unable to Under President Ronald Reagan, the of Robert Service, our favorite poet. achieve ratification in the Senate. Our freeze on the transfer of Alaskan lands One of my fondest memories of Presi- group went to Geneva 3 or 4 times a to our new State and to the Alaskan dent Reagan is, strangely enough, a year and came back and briefed the Native people was finally lifted, and we phone call I received from him as President, Secretary Shultz, and the began to receive the land that right- chairman of the Appropriations Sub- Senators who were involved in arms fully belonged to us under the State- committee on Defense. The President control matters. hood Act that admitted Alaska into called to ask me if I had placed funding The President encouraged the Sovi- our Union. President Reagan in- in the Defense bill that year to procure ets to decrease the size of their arse- structed the Department of the Inte- a new pair of Air Force I airplanes. I nals and to reduce the size of our nu- rior to move quickly as possible on told him that I had. President Reagan clear forces. This was one of the most that. I do not believe it would have told me that he had not requested that significant parts of the Reagan agenda, happened that fast had he not been funding and would veto the bill. the overall concern with arms control. elected. He said: ‘‘Ted, I’m the President.’’ Under President Reagan, the Village The President also created a revolu- I said: ‘‘Sir, I understand that, but Built Clinic Program began, and we set tionary new approach to defense space you won’t be President by the time the out to establish Indian health service research. He brought down the walls new planes arrive.’’ clinics in every Native village in Alas- between isolated research projects and There was silence on the other end of ka. advocated a more comprehensive ap- the line, and when he finally spoke, the Under President Reagan, we finally President said: ‘‘Ted, do you have a de- proach. A lot of the aspects of the mis- addressed the injustice of Aleut intern- sile defense system, which he called sign for these planes?’’ ment during World War II by awarding I will never forget that because the Star Wars, were based upon the re- reparations to Aleuts who had been search he put into effect then. first time a President flew in those new taken from their homes and sent to planes was when one of them took the When President Reagan passed away what were called ‘‘duration villages’’ in retired President and Nancy back to on Saturday, I noted that his death co- southeastern Alaska for the duration California in 1989. incided with another sad day in Amer- of the war. This week, President Reagan will fly ican history: On June 5, 36 years ago, President Reagan understood Alas- back to Washington for the last time. another great American leader, Sen- ka’s military and geopolitical signifi- ator and Presidential candidate Robert cance better than any other President. Thousands of Americans will pay trib- Kennedy, was struck down by an assas- The modernization of Alaska’s military ute to him in the Capitol Rotunda and sin’s bullet in Los Angeles. Although bases accelerated during his adminis- millions more will reflect on his life. they were from different generations tration. Catherine and I extend our deepest and different political parties, Robert What most Alaskans probably re- sympathies to Nancy and the Reagan Kennedy and Ronald Reagan had a lot member best about President Reagan is family, as all of us will mourn the loss in common. Both men were leaders who how well he understood our State and of a true American hero. did more than just point the country in our way of life. When he came to Fair- I yield the floor. the right direction. In the words of banks to meet Pope John Paul II, he The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Bobby Kennedy, they inspired Ameri- told the crowd that every time he came ator from Arizona. cans to envision a ‘‘world that never to Alaska he thought of the poet Rob- Mr. DORGAN. Will the Senator was and ask ‘Why not?’ ’’ ert Service and threatened to recite yield? On June 12, 1987, President Reagan ‘‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew.’’ In Mr. KYL. I am happy to yield. inspired all of us to envision a new fact, he did that just that one night Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, my un- world when he gave his famous speech when Catherine and I were attending a derstanding is, by unanimous consent, at the Brandenburg Gate. I will never dinner in Chicago. We had just flown in Senator BROWNBACK will follow Sen- forget the image of President Reagan from Fairbanks, and I told the crowd ator KYL. I ask unanimous consent standing before that gate demanding that was present that the 20-degree that I be allowed to follow Senator that Gorbachev ‘‘Tear down this wall!’’ weather in Chicago could not compete BROWNBACK. Weeks before he gave that speech, with the harsh weather back home, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the President learned that his remarks where the temperature was 50 below. objection, it is so ordered. would be carried in East Germany over Ronald Reagan got up to give his re- The Senator from Arizona. the radio, and in one part of the speech marks, and he recited Robert Service’s Mr. KYL. Mr. President, America he spoke directly to the people of East poem ‘‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’’ mourns the loss of an epic-making Germany. One can only imagine the from memory. leader, Ronald Wilson Reagan. hope the people on the other side of I distinctly remember him saying As the biographer Lou Cannon has that wall must have felt when they this phrase from Service’s poem: said, Reagan ‘‘possessed a special heard the President of the United When out of the night, which was fifty ‘something’ that transcended the ap- States declare in their native tongue: below, and into the din and the glare, there peal of ordinary politicians,’’ and he ‘‘There is only one Berlin.’’ stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog- knew it. Even so—and this is an impor- dirty, and loaded for bear. Here at home, President Reagan tant point—he was neither a vain man built, as he called it, a ‘‘shining city On the plane ride home, the Presi- nor in love with power. In not misusing upon a hill.’’ He borrowed that phrase dent told my wife Catherine that his that special appeal that he had, he from John Winthrop, an early Pilgrim mother had kept a first edition of Rob- showed such character and goodness. who used it to describe the kind of ert Service’s poetry by his bedside and He could have been, but was not, a America he envisioned. read those poems to him as a child. demagog. He was trying to accomplish For Reagan, the idea of a ‘‘shining Catherine later sent him a first edition his exalted vision of this country, only city’’ was: of Robert Service that she found in a that. And in large measure, he suc- bookstore in New York, and he wrote ceeded. A tall proud city built on rocks stronger Militarily, he rebuilt America’s ca- than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and her a nice letter back telling her he teeming with people of all kinds living in planned to memorize ‘‘The Cremation pacity to defend itself and its allies. harmony and peace, a city with free ports of Sam McGee’’ once more. Reagan’s defense buildup led to U.S. that hummed with commerce and creativity, I tried many times to get the Presi- victories in the cold war, the Persian and if there had to be city walls, the walls dent to come back to Alaska, but, un- Gulf war, and beyond. In fact, dealing

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6608 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 skillfully with a Congress controlled strength. It turned this country around who got credit for successful policies. during most of his Presidency by the militarily and diplomatically and Goodness knows, his detractors, then other party, he secured funding for turned the course of the cold war dra- and even now, will deny him any credit weapons systems that are still being matically in our favor. It was also a ne- he might deserve for making the world used. gotiating strategy—just the right one, safer. He did make the world safer, Diplomatically, he achieved with the it turned out—for dealing with a Com- though. That is the truth of it. And Soviet Union, our adversary for most munist power that was ailing economi- history will remember him that way. of the last century, an accord that cally but still aggressive. The Soviet We can say of Ronald Reagan what eliminated whole classes of nuclear Union had last invaded a country the Lincoln said in praise of his, Lincoln’s, weapons from the stockpiles of both year before he was elected, Afghanistan personal role model Henry Clay: countries. in 1979. The U.S.S.R. was engaged in He loved his country partly because it was Politically, he enabled us to regain the 1970s in a rapid military buildup. his own country, but mostly because it was confidence in America. His confidence The prevailing nuclear standoff be- a free country. in his country and his goodness was ut- tween the two superpowers when The role model of our time is Ronald terly unshakeable, so he was just the Reagan came into office was fright- Reagan. His principles are the prin- right leader to rise to the fore when ening. They were locked in a decades- ciples we now embrace. They will help the national spirit had been battered old equilibrium under which neither at- us to keep this free country and to help by our withdrawal from Vietnam, the tacked the other because each could, at others who want to be free. scandal of Watergate, and the malaise the push of a button, destroy the oth- As we continue in the wake of Sep- that his predecessor identified but er’s populations with nuclear weapons. tember 11 to fight the war on terror, we could not seem to counteract. President Reagan once commented all take comfort and inspiration from Economically, he slew the dragon of that this nuclear standoff, which was the jaunty optimism and the serious- double-digit inflation. He braved called mutual assured destruction, was ness of purpose of Ronald Reagan. unpopularity to stay the course with ‘‘a sad commentary on the human con- President George W. Bush practices Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal dition.’’ Reagan’s doctrine of peace through He had the courage and the imagina- Reserve, in tightening the money sup- strength. He has done so by con- tion to think of a way out of it: erect- ply. This steadfastness saw the United fronting and defeating tyranny in Af- ing a defense against nuclear arms. States through its worst economic cri- ghanistan and Iraq, by pursuing de- This would end the practice of holding sis in 50 years. The economy slid deep ployment of missile defenses, by lead- civilian populations hostage to the into a recession before recovering in ing the international community to atomic bomb. It was, he believed, both late 1982. stop the spread of weapons of mass de- militarily and morally necessary to Along with tightening the money struction, and by demonstrating to the strike off in this new direction. As he supply to kill inflation, Reagan was world that the United States is willing pointed the way, he endured heavy convinced that marginal tax rates to rally free peoples in defense of our criticism and even ridicule, but it must be cut to stimulate growth. These civilization and our democratic way of anti-inflation and tax policies defied didn’t faze him. His idea was brilliant, for even if em- life. the conventional wisdom of that time. Thank you, Ronald Reagan, for show- But they worked. They gave us what barking on this high-tech shield against missiles did not lead to a ing the way. the late, great journalist Robert The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Bartley called ‘‘the seven fat years,’’ a deployable U.S. system right away, he knew the Soviets would pour their re- ator from Kansas. time of unprecedented job creation and Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I sources into matching our progress to- economic expansion in America. rise to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan, ward missile defense. It was a competi- Even as Ronald Reagan won through my political guiding light. I came to tion they could ill afford. The extra in domestic policy, he was a statesman Congress on the second Reagan wave in burden economically and even psycho- who left his mark on the world. the 1994 election, when Republicans logically of keeping up with missile de- During his two terms in office, early took over the House of Representa- 1981 to the end of 1988, he championed fense and the entire Reagan military buildup hastened the collapse of the tives. Many of us were raised on Ron- the cause of human rights in the Soviet ald Reagan. His was my first Presi- Union and Central and Eastern Europe, Soviet economy and the Communist system itself. dential campaign in 1976, when I was standing up for freedom, democracy, still a student at Kansas State Univer- and civil society. He spoke passion- People who didn’t agree with Presi- dent Reagan called him a saber rattler sity. I was riding in a tractor in Kansas ately of God-given rights and said self- when I heard the Evil Empire speech. I government and free markets were the and worse. Opponents wrung their hands at this peace-through-strength started pounding on the dashboard, only way to vindicate those rights. He approach, insisting a buildup of U.S. saying: That is right, that is right. wanted the people who were living military capabilities couldn’t possibly Then all the pundits came on afterward under oppression to regain their dig- help us if the goal was a safer and more and said how terrible it was. I was a bit nity, and his words gave hope to mil- peaceful world. Yet the critics were confused but decided Reagan was right lions. and the pundits were wrong. He went In his 1982 Evil Empire speech before wrong. President Reagan, the saber rattler, sat down with Soviet leader on to prove that. the British House of Commons, Presi- He was a great contributor to our dent Reagan said: Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington in December of 1987 and the two men time and our legacy. I only had the While we must be cautious about forcing signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces pleasure of meeting Ronald Reagan the pace of change, we must not hesitate to once. I was a White House fellow in the declare our ultimate objectives and to take Treaty which abolished the use of all concrete actions to move toward them. We intermediate and shorter range mis- Bush 1 White House. We met him in must be staunch in our conviction that free- siles by the United States and the So- southern California. People had always dom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky viet Union. given examples of his legendary humor. few but the inalienable and universal right of The following year the Reagan ad- This meeting was no exception. We all human beings. ministration created the On-Site In- were having a meeting for a period of The Reagan administration fostered spection Agency to conduct U.S. in- time, and then one of the people with democracy around the world in the spections of Soviet military facilities whom I was traveling asked him a 1980s, in Central America, South Amer- and to aid Soviet inspections at our fa- question: What one thing didn’t you ica, Asia. The Philippines, Taiwan, and cilities. The Reagan-Gorbachev diplo- get done as President that you wish South Korea all liberalized their soci- macy set the stage for the 1990 signing you had gotten done. I think he had eties in ways that may not have been between NATO and the Warsaw Pact of heard this question before and he had possible without the Reagan adminis- the Conventional Forces in Europe given this line before, but he tilted his tration’s support. Treaty. head back, and you could see the glint President Reagan will go down in his- One of the well-known personal traits in his eye and the smile comes across tory for his doctrine of peace through of Ronald Reagan was he didn’t care the face, and he said: I wished I had

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In other words, he was not freedom for people who had been in op- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- full of himself. He considered this pressed societies for their entire exist- ator from North Dakota is recognized. country great. He considered the posi- ence, and that was Ronald Reagan. He Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I would tion of President to be great. But he understood the source of our national like to extend my deepest sympathy to wasn’t full of the feeling of greatness greatness was not our wealth or our the Reagan family, and to send a thank for himself, and he always had self-dep- military power but, rather our belief in you from a grateful Nation to someone recating humor. That was part of him. the dignity of the individual and in the who served this country so well. And I Following on the previous speaker, God-given freedom of ordinary people know that the citizens I represent in Senator KYL, I had a chance several to order their lives as they wished. North Dakota feel the same way. years back to talk with Eduard That was the source of his view of the President Reagan had a profound im- Shevardnadze, Foreign Secretary under United States being a shining city on a pact on the demise of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, about when hill and a model to people the world and the end of the cold war. I recall in Reagan and Gorbachev were negoti- over, and an inspiring example of a po- the 1980s, in the middle of the cold war, ating on missile reduction and nuclear litical system that put power in the when the lives of two men intersected: weapons reduction. This was a meeting hands of the people, not bureaucrats or Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. that took place within the last 3 or 4 judges. That was Ronald Reagan. These two men were very different in years with Mr. Shevardnadze. I asked We remember President Reagan for many ways, but they changed the him to reflect on that time period restoring our national confidence at a course of history. Together, President when we were having a military de- time when our country was on the Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sat fense buildup here under Ronald heels of the Vietnam war and the im- down together to reduce the threat of Reagan and what took place in the So- peachment of a President, uncertain nuclear weapons, to reduce the stock- viet Union in that time period. I want- about the way forward. We remember pile of nuclear weapons in both coun- ed to get a measure from him on that. him for his staunch defense of inno- tries. He said of Reagan: Reagan saw the cent, unborn human life—an issue on The Soviet Union no longer exists. central weakness of the Soviet Union. which he never wavered—and for the Eastern Europe and the Warsaw Pact That was its inability to produce goods extraordinary step he took in author- no longer exist. The Communist threat and services. They were spending some- ing a book as President, entitled and cold war that stemmed from them where between 60 to 80 percent of the ‘‘Abortion and the Conscience of a Na- is gone. And much of the credit, in my GDP of the Soviet Union on the mili- tion,’’ because he felt so strongly about judgment, belongs to President Ronald tary. Along comes Reagan and says: I the pro-life cause. We remember his Reagan. am moving more chips on the table. brave challenge to a new Soviet leader We all recall the historic occasion You will have to match me if you want to ‘‘tear down this wall,’’ because it when he stood at the wall in Berlin and to stay in this race. was an affront to human dignity. We said, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this The Soviet Union then was looking remember his vital role in bringing the wall.’’ It was a moment I will never around saying, how do we stay in the cold war to an end—an end hastened by forget. race when we are putting virtually both President Reagan’s military But President Reagan was defined by every chip we have right now into this buildup and his revitalization of the more than this moment. military buildup for the cold war. And American economy. When hundreds of American troops it was a long way from secure at that In all of Ronald Reagan’s political were killed in Lebanon, it was Ronald point in time that the Soviet Union life was his passionate belief in two Reagan who went to the press room was going to fall any time soon. This core principles: human freedom and and said: I am accountable. You don’t was a very well-established, militarily human dignity, both inalienable be- see many in politics do that, but he strong country. What it forced in the cause they were given by God. He be- did. Soviet Union was for them to restruc- lieved in the unbounded inventiveness In 1986, I served on the House Ways ture their economy and move to open- and ingenuity of the individual freed and Means Committee, in which we ness to try to get more chips on the from the tyranny of government but provided the most significant tax re- table to grow their economy. firmly rooted in our recognition of a form that had been done in many dec- They introduced the likes of glasnost higher moral authority. He understood ades in this country—under the leader- and perestroika, openness and restruc- that, in his words, ‘‘The city of man ship of a President who said let’s re- turing of the economy. But when you cannot survive without the city of God, duce tax rates for all Americans and looked at the totalitarian Communist that the visible city will perish with- get rid of some of the tax loopholes. system, glasnost and perestroika were out the invisible city.’’ This President led and the Congress inherent inconsistencies and led to the President Reagan recognized that the followed. I was proud to be a part of demise of the Soviet Union, that along vitality of our society and culture has that. with Ronald Reagan’s words. These always been dependent on the religious His Presidency was not without sub- words are from Eduard Shevardnadze. faith and practice of the people. As he stantial controversy and difficulty. I Many talked about star wars and how said, ‘‘Those who created our country felt his fiscal policy would produce the Soviet Union, at that time when . . . understood that there is a divine very large budget deficits, and it did. Reagan announced star wars—the So- order which transcends the human And the Iran-Contra scandal was a seri- viet Union’s leadership sent its best order. They saw the state, in fact, as a ous problem for the administration. scientists to come back and appraise it form or moral order and felt that the Yet, despite those problems and set- and tell the political leadership if the bedrock of moral order is religion.’’ backs and controversies, I think Presi- Americans could do this. The Soviet Ronald Reagan was never reticent in dent Reagan provided leadership in scientists came back after a few speaking about his own faith and the some very important areas. months of studying the American pro- primary place it held in his life. In all The charm of President Reagan was posal—the Reagan proposal—for star of these things, President Reagan was, considerable. He had that cowboy hat wars and said we could not. They spent and continues to be, an inspiration to kind of cocked back on his head. He another few months looking at it and millions, and certainly to me. He had movie-star good looks. He had that then returned to the Soviet leadership transformed the world for the better, famous smile. He was a great story- and said if the Americans are willing to and we are thankful he graced this Na- teller with a gleam in his eye. He told stay on this path and put the money tion with his life, his example, and his the story often about the pile of ma- into doing it, they can do it. divine calling. nure and the child who insisted that if

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6610 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 there is a pile of manure, there must be ment, in which he described his illness peal. His belief in small Government a pony somewhere. The President loved and its consequences. and cutting taxes to allow people to de- to regale people with stories. This is a man who served his country cide how best to spend their own I don’t pretend to have known him with great distinction, someone with money have been two of my guiding well, but I sat behind him on the west whom I had disagreements from time principles since I was first elected to front of the Capitol in 1981, when he to time, but someone who I believe is public office. I believe him to be the fa- gave his inaugural address. I recall owed the admiration of an entire na- ther of the modern Republican Party. that he announced to the country that tion. My wife Joan and I never had the op- planes had just left the tarmac in Iran I am reminded of a book that David portunity to meet Ronald Reagan until with the American hostages, now freed. McCullough wrote about another Presi- he came to Colorado in 1988. Talking to It was a gray, cold day and the first in- dent, John Adams. In the book, you him one on one was an emotional high augural of President Reagan. As he learn that John Adams wrote to his point of my life. We smiled all the way began to speak, the clouds began to wife Abigail, as our Founding Fathers back home to Loveland, CO. I have part and rays of sunshine began to tried to put this country of ours to- kept his picture hanging in my office, come through. It was a remarkable mo- gether—and he asked these questions: first in the U.S. House of Representa- ment. From where will the leadership come? tives and now in the Senate, ever since. And I was a freshman member of the Who will be the leaders? How will the It is hard to describe to the young House when, one day, I was called to leadership emerge to create this new people who live in our vibrant economy the bank of telephones in the Demo- country of ours? And then he would and confident culture just how unsure cratic cloakroom. They told me it was plaintively say to his wife: There is and discouraged Americans were in the President Reagan calling. only us. There is me. There is Ben late 1970s. Everything that could go The President wanted my vote for a Franklin. There is George Washington. wrong had. America seemed to be policy he was proposing to the Con- There is Thomas Jefferson and James shrinking before our eyes. Those in gress. I listened to him, but in the end, Madison. There is George Mason. charge of our Government had appar- I felt he was not right on that par- Of course, in the rearview mirror of ently given up on winning the cold war. ticular issue, and I said I could not sup- history, we recognize that these men The Soviet Union loomed dangerous port him on it. He said: Well, you are a were some of the greatest human tal- and, we were told, invincible. We were good man, and thanks for taking my ent ever assembled on Earth. But every being admonished to get used to a dys- call. It was just like him to frame it generation has asked that same ques- functional economy that combined that way. tion for this great democracy. From high inflation with low growth, a de- I had the opportunity to have break- where will the leadership come? Who moralized military, an ever more in- fast with him, along with a handful of will be the leaders? And this country trusive and intruding Government, a my colleagues, one morning in the has been fortunate that, in generation depressed and depressing spiritual mal- White House. Once again, he regaled all after generation, men and women of aise that left many in doubt about our of us with wonderful, charming stories. virtually all political persuasions have fundamental values. No one offered a I have always said that if you could stepped forward to say: Let me serve way out. Ronald Reagan’s fresh voice of opti- have dinner with anyone, you could not this great country. mism was like manna to our hungry do better than Ronald Reagan or Tip Ronald Reagan was one of those lead- spirits. He talked about how our idling O’Neill, both Irish, both wonderful peo- ers. He served in California as Gov- economy could regain its formidable ple with a wit and a charm, and both ernor and then served two terms as power. He talked about how great our great storytellers. President of the United States. He had, country was and how much greater it I believe that for President Reagan, in my judgment, a kind of a peculiar could be. He talked about facing down politics was not bitter or rancid. In quality, a quality that gave him an al- our foes and our fears. He talked about fact, he used to talk about the ‘‘11th most quenchless hope, boundless opti- restoring American pride and patriot- commandment’’ for his party: Thou mism, an indestructible belief that ism. He, more than any other indi- shalt not speak ill of someone in his something good was going to happen, vidual in the second half of the 20th own political party. It is a command- and he communicated that to a grate- century, brought America back from ment that has been long forgotten, re- ful nation. the brink of self-imposed defeat and de- grettably. I am afraid that today’s pol- So today we say thank you. Thank spair. He made us proud once again. itics have taken a turn for the worse. you for your service. God bless your Ronald Reagan was a monumentally President Reagan was aggressive in memory, and God bless your family. gifted man, and a man of many gifts. debate but always respectful. I believe I yield the floor. To those in doubt, he brought the gift he personified the notion that you can The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- of optimism. disagree without being disagreeable. ator from Colorado. To his supporters and allies, he He was a man of great strength. After Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, some brought the gift of confidence and as- he was shot during an assassination at- people have the capacity to change surance. tempt—seriously wounded—he was your life. For me, Ronald Reagan was To an audience, he brought a mag- wheeled into the hospital emergency one of those people. Ronald Reagan’s nificent gift of humor. room, and he was ready with a quip for message of strengthening individual To his opponents, he brought the gift the doctors. liberties, maintaining a strong na- of disagreeing without being disagree- He was a remarkable person. When tional defense, cutting through the able. the Challenger accident occurred and thicket of Government regulations and His gift to the world was even more this country was horrified by seeing lowering taxes inspired me to run for significant. He brought about the end the explosion of the Challenger and the public office in the 1980s. He made me of a cold war that had cast a 50-year death of those astronauts, it was Ron- believe it is possible to bring about shadow of fear over all the people on ald Reagan who came on television and change for the better. the planet. talked about that ill-fated flight. But I first ran for the Colorado State sen- Ronald Reagan never doubted his he did it in such an inspiring way, and ate in 1982, the second year of Reagan’s country’s need to defend itself from all finished with the refrain from that Presidency, and fought to pass resolu- foes. ‘‘Of the four wars in my lifetime,’’ poem: They have slipped the surly tions there supporting the policies that President Reagan said, ‘‘none came bonds of Earth and touched the face of the President advocated, such as the about because the United States was God. balanced budget amendment. too strong.’’ Later in life, as President Reagan I was a small businessman. I operated It is of paramount importance for us lived in retirement in California, he a private veterinary practice. So Ron- to remember, during this period of began a long journey into the darkness ald Reagan’s vision of strengthening threat and conflict, the wisdom of one of a devastating illness called Alz- America’s small businesses, because of his favorite phrases: ‘‘Peace through heimer’s. His last statement to the they are the backbone of our economy strength.’’ Among his greatest achieve- American people was a poignant state- and way of life, had a great deal of ap- ments was to rearm us, to reinvigorate

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The keys to those ily’s grief, and keep them in our pray- Nation was guided by his clarity of victories were highly motivated and ers. purpose, understanding of the purpose skilled combat personnel fighting with In his memory, let us recommit our- of power and the limitations of govern- unmatched military equipment and selves to President Reagan’s goal of en- ment. employing unprecedented tactics. suring that America always remains Since President Reagan left the How did this renewed and reinvigo- the ‘‘bright, shining city on the hill.’’ American political stage, we have rated American military might come Mr. President, I yield the floor and missed his imagination and creativity. about? suggest the absence of a quorum. Since his days of sitting in a radio stu- Let’s look back to Ronald Reagan’s The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. dio doing play-by-play broadcasts for acceptance speech at the 1980 Repub- CHAFEE). The clerk will call the roll. baseball games from news wire service lican nominating convention. As only The legislative clerk proceeded to copy, he had a genuineness that served the Great Communicator could, he laid call the roll. him well. He was a masterful story- out his vision for us with not only clar- Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, I ask teller. In today’s age of processed poli- ity, but with a conviction that rings unanimous consent the order for the tics and politicians, President Reagan’s true and is still good counsel today. quorum call be rescinded. candor and humor are sorely lacking. He said: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Ronald Reagan was a child of humble We are awed—and rightly so—by the forces objection, it is so ordered. beginnings who never forgot the little of destruction at loose in the world in this nuclear era. But neither can we be naı¨ve or Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, on Janu- guy. He believed every American had foolish. . . . We know only too well that war ary 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan, after being something special to contribute. comes not when the forces of freedom are sworn in as the 40th President of the Reagan let people know that each strong, but when they are weak. It is then United States, looked out over The thread of the American fabric tyrants are tempted. Mall and addressed the Nation. He told mattered. In late September of 1980, I He added: us that the challenges of our day re- was working as an adviser on the Let our friends and those who may wish us quired: Reagan-Bush campaign. ill take note: the United States has an obli- Our best effort, and our willingness to be- One evening, I was part of a group in- gation to its citizens and to the people of the lieve in ourselves and to believe in our ca- vited to an estate near Middleburg, VA, world never to let those who would destroy pacity to perform great deeds; to believe where then-Governor and Nancy freedom dictate the future course of human that together, with God’s help, we can and Reagan were staying. They wanted to life on this planet. . . . This nation will once will resolve the problems which now con- again be strong enough to do that. thank us for the work we had done for front us. And, after all, why shouldn’t we be- the campaign with a wonderful dinner. He was, of course, as good as his lieve that? We are Americans. As the evening was ending, an aide to word. Once assuming office, President I remember the celebrations that Reagan launched a military renais- Governor Reagan asked me to remain evening as if they happened yesterday. after the dinner because Governor sance that not only led to the demise It was a bitterly cold evening. As our of the Soviet Union, Soviet com- Reagan wanted to speak with me. I was Nation celebrated a new beginning, it taken into the house where Governor munism, and the cold war, but also set was as if the cold January winds swept the course for our military leadership Reagan was staying. He sat down next away a nation’s doubts and fears and to me and told me he wanted to talk that continues to this day ensuring our replaced them with a renewed Amer- safety. about Vietnam. He wanted to know ican spirit. about my experience and what I President Reagan’s initiative was Ronald Reagan was a unique Amer- threefold: upgrade our military equip- thought about the war. That was the ican leader who understood the great- ment; improve the training and morale kind of man he was. He wanted to un- ness and the goodness of America. He of our service men and women to im- derstand things. He wanted to know knew who he was and what he believed. prove recruitment and retention; and things and he wanted to make the Over the last century, no American restore national pride in—and global world better than it was. President was as well grounded as Ron- respect of—the United States’ military. Though his individual accomplish- A major accomplishment of Presi- ald Reagan. He had faith and con- ments are great, Ronald Reagan will be dent Reagan’s was the development of fidence in the people of America, and remembered for something far greater a credible, modern strategic deterrent. that trust was reciprocated. than the sum of his individual accom- He reinvested in our strategic ballistic As much as anyone who came before plishments; he will be remembered for missile weapons inventories, modern- or after him, Ronald Reagan possessed renewing the American spirit. He was a ized a complement of land, sea, and air- an innate understanding of the signifi- true American original. We will never craft-based platforms to project our cance of the American Presidency. see one like him again. strategic force. Ronald and Nancy Reagan set the gold- Over the last decade as we struggled This display of offensive force proved standard for grace, dignity and class in to meet the challenges of our time, to be an effective deterrent, but Presi- the White House. Reagan understood Ronald Reagan slipped away from us. dent Reagan envisioned a world with the weight and consequences of his of- He now belongs to the warmth of eter- far fewer of these destructive weapons, fice beyond the borders of the United nity and the pages of history. However, and pressed throughout his Presidency States. The world looked to him as a he has not left us to meet our chal- for significant reductions of nuclear standard bearer of freedom. Reagan lenges alone. The lessons of his leader- weapons. In 1983, President Reagan also understood the importance of the ship and the strength of his spirit that launched the Strategic Defense Initia- Presidency to young people. The re- swept across our country on a cold day tive in the hopes of one day rendering sponsibility of being a role model to a in January 24 years ago, guide us still all such ballistic missiles ‘‘impotent nation’s youth rested easily on his today. and obsolete.’’ shoulders. I yield the floor. I suggest the ab- Today we are building on his legacy Ronald Reagan is known as the great sence of a quorum. by deploying strategic missile defenses communicator. While he certainly was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and aggressively eliminating excessive one of the best communicators ever to clerk will call the roll. nuclear stockpiles. President Reagan’s hold the Presidency, he was far more The assistant legislative clerk pro- legacy to us, of a safer world, is one we than just a talented communicator. ceeded to call the roll. must constantly guard and honor. Reagan was a thinker and a writer. He Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask There is no doubt that President was constantly writing beautiful let- unanimous consent that the order for Reagan was one of the greatest Presi- ters and his speeches in long-hand. the quorum call be rescinded.

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It is with sadness that he has Ronald Reagan came in with such that had been suppressed and under the recently passed away. But I have great great enthusiasm, such an optimist. He reins of the Iron Curtain of com- confidence he has passed away and did not say, ‘‘let’s moan about it,’’ but munism began speaking up, exercising moved on to a better home. I express ‘‘let’s do something about it.’’ He had their rights, and demanding freedom my condolences and sympathies to his an economic game plan for which we and obtaining it. family and also thank them for their fought, and we passed in the House and Ronald Reagan was the leader in win- generosity in sharing Ronald Reagan the Senate. These were remarkable ac- ning the fight in the cold war. As Mr. with us in the public life, both as Gov- complishments when I think about it. Gorbachev said, probably no one else in ernor of the great State of California, He actually was responsible for push- the world could have done it, but Ron- and also as President of the United ing Congress, Democrats and Repub- ald Reagan did it. And he was able to States for eight wonderful years. licans, to pass enormous changes in the do it with Mr. Gorbachev. Many times I had the privilege, in the same year Tax Code. I happened to enjoy working they were political adversaries in nego- as Ronald Reagan was elected Presi- on taxes, and during his 8 years he ac- tiating arms control treaties and so on. dent, to be elected to the Senate. I tually moved the maximum tax rate Yet they still became friends as only have many fond memories of Ronald from 70 percent to 28 percent. That is a Ronald Reagan could do. He could be- Reagan. I remember very well during phenomenal accomplishment. Phe- come friends with his adversaries and his Inaugural Address when the rumors nomenal. And he was able to do it with eventually that kind of friendship and were coming out, and then later con- a bipartisan majority. It was not a bond would lead to arms control reduc- firmed, that the American citizens who strictly partisan House and Senate. As tion, would lead to a significant reduc- were held hostage in Iran for 444 days a matter of fact, the House was always tion in nuclear weapons, would lead to were released. I remember the euphoria controlled by the Democrats. ‘‘Tip’’ agreements with our NATO allies and that came across the stage. I remember O’Neill, who was the Democrat leader, other countries to expand freedom. the euphoria that came across Amer- the House Speaker at the time, was op- Ronald Reagan, probably more than ica. It was such an exciting, positive posed. So we had big confrontations, any individual since Churchill or Roo- change. Americans really felt great. political confrontations, big battles sevelt, was responsible for expanding This was suppressing our country, the over the tax cuts, and over the budgets. freedom throughout the world. I com- very fact that we had American citi- Yet they passed them. pliment him for his great contributions zens held hostage for over a year, in Even though we had big battles, we in doing so. many cases being beaten or tortured or had a certain dignity and respect in He became somewhat of a role model abused, with American flags burning in large part because of Ronald Reagan. for many of us. I was elected with this Tehran continually. It was such a great And because of his affection for indi- group in 1980. Many of us called our- day when they were released. I happen to think it was because, in viduals, Democrats and Republicans, selves Reaganites and considered our- many respects, the leadership of Iran even political adversaries who would selves part of the soldiers in the field decided they did not want to worry have political battles still had a colle- trying to get an agenda done to expand about this new President, Ronald gial, working relationship. They re- freedom. I am proud to have been part Reagan, and what actions he might spected each other and respected indi- of that. I am proud to have had the op- take. I think they made a very good de- viduals regardless of their political portunity to serve with such a great in- cision. I was very pleased they did so. philosophy. As a result, he was able to dividual. I was very euphoric at the time and enact enormous changes in the Tax I remember many times going down probably could not have been much Code and budgets, and increase defense. to the White House, talking issues. I more excited at that time. Ronald Reagan came in with an agen- remember Ronald Reagan almost al- When we were sworn in, there were 18 da, and he largely accomplished those ways having humor, almost always not new Senators elected in 1980 and sworn objectives. The result has been eco- caring who got the credit as long as we in early in 1981. Of the 18, 16 were Re- nomic freedom in this country. accomplished our objective. publicans. The leadership of the Senate He was not satisfied, frankly, with I remember many times he let other changed for the first time, I believe, just expanding and improving the eco- people wrestle with the details, but he since 1954. So we had new committee nomic lot of Americans. He wanted to knew where he wanted to go. He knew chairmen; we had new leadership. How- improve the economic lot and the free- the course he was trying to direct our ard Baker assumed the responsibility dom of people throughout the world. ship of state, and he managed it very and role as majority leader and did an Ronald Reagan was the leader of the well. outstanding job. The Senate was a free world, and he spoke eloquently and I have a lot of fond memories. I re- great place to work and to serve, and often and encouraged freedom through member Ronald Reagan coming in to to work with a President as generous, the world and countless countries that campaign for me in 1986. We had him as humorous, and with such strong have been oppressed or suppressed visit Norman, Oklahoma, the Univer- leadership as Ronald Reagan. through Communist leadership. Ronald sity of Oklahoma, Lloyd Noble Arena. I look at the economy that Ronald Reagan was speaking to them. He We packed the place. It was more than Reagan inherited, and I see great ac- would go right over the leaders of Con- packed. The fire marshal had to turn complishments. A lot of people do not gress. If he wanted to get something down people who could not get in. We remember that in 1980 the inflation done budget-wise, tax-wise, or defense- had thousands and thousands of people. rate was 13.5 percent and it fell to 4.8 wise, and if Congress was not listening, I told President Reagan: This is percent by 1989. The interest rate in he would go to the American people. Reagan country. They love you here. 1980 was 15.27 percent and fell to 10.87 And when he would travel internation- You don’t need to make a prepared percent by 1989. Actually, the interest ally he would go over the leadership of speech. You can say whatever you rate had risen to 18.87 percent in 1981. I those countries and speak to their peo- want. They will applaud. They love you remember that now. Interest rates ple with great success. here. were at 18 and 19 percent. The unem- We all remember his speech when he There was a nice, big sign: ‘‘This is ployment rate in 1980 was over 7 per- was in Berlin, the speech that says: Reagan country.’’ Very positive. The cent. In 1981 it reached 7.6 percent but ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ entire rally speech could not have gone by 1989 it was down to 5.3 percent. The favorite picture of all my memo- better from my standpoint. There were So we had record high inflation rates, rabilia that I have in my home is a pic- thousands and thousands of people. It record high interest rates, and maybe ture of me standing before the Berlin was great.

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But Ronald Reagan leaves a legacy. BREAKTHROUGH ACT OF 2004 How did we get this far, this fast? He leaves a legacy of decency. He Mr. President, as our country reflects With a bipartisan commitment like the leaves a legacy of integrity. I think he on President Reagan’s life, many will one represented by Senator BOND, Sen- helped restore so much pride in Amer- ask, how should we honor him? I be- ators SPECTER and HARKIN, the Alz- ica. He was a true patriot, a patriot lieve the greatest tribute we could give heimer’s Task Force that is lead by who loved this country from the very to President Reagan and the Reagan Senators COLLINS and CLINTON, and all inner core of his being. And it was con- family is a living memorial, something of us who are working on this issue. tagious. It was contagious through the that he would want to see us do, not With a bipartisan commitment of the fact that not only did he love America, something we would like to do, and authorizers and appropriators, we have but he made Americans feel better something that would have lasting been working to increase the funding about our country. value. Therefore, I would like to issue for the National Institute on Aging. He made other people envy us to a bipartisan call to support legislation Remember, there are 19 institutes at some extent. They wanted to be like that Senator KIT BOND and I will be in- the NIH. One of them is the National us. They wanted to be free. What does troducing next week, legislation to cre- Institute of Aging. America have that we don’t have? They ate breakthroughs for Alzheimer’s dis- In 1998 the National Institute on have freedom, optimism. And that free- ease. Aging was funded at approximately dom would be economic freedom, per- Let’s honor President Reagan’s life $500 million. Thanks to our bipartisan sonal freedom, and political freedom. with new research and new initiatives effort, it is at $1 billion. Now is the Ronald Reagan wanted to expand it on how to prevent Alzheimer’s, how to time to do more. all for all people. He believed every- care for those who have it, how to sup- That is why I want to join with my body—even if they lived in China or port the gallant caregivers, and how, esteemed colleague, Senator KIT BOND, Russia or North Korea or El Salvador— ultimately, to find a cure. who himself has been a very strong ad- if people were trying to take that free- President Reagan was a man of vigor. vocate for research and breakthroughs, dom away, he was freedom’s friend. He Let’s attack Alzheimer’s with the same to introduce the Ronald Reagan Alz- carried that banner very well. type of vigor that President Reagan heimer’s Breakthrough Act of 2004. He helped people learn to love and re- demonstrated during his life. We want to strengthen our national spect the United States. I can honestly The time to act for real break- commitment to Alzheimer’s research, say I have the greatest admiration and throughs is now. Just last month, Sen- to increase and double the funding of respect for Ronald Reagan. I loved ator BOND and I held a hearing on Alz- research at NIA, to give them the re- Ronald Reagan. He has moved this heimer’s research. Expert after expert sources they need to make those break- country forward in a way that I think told us: We are on the verge of amazing throughs they say they are on the hori- all of us can be very proud. breakthroughs; we will lose opportuni- zon of doing. This will mean more clin- Again, I express my condolences and ties if we don’t move quickly; we are at ical trials to test the best way to de- sympathy to Nancy Reagan and to the a crucial point where NIH funding can tect, prevent, and treat Alzheimer’s. family. Nancy Reagan was one great make a real difference. NIH is looking at a range of behav- First Lady. The love and affection she Researchers, families, and advocates iors and therapies that can make an in- showed toward her husband throughout all said the same thing, we need to do credible difference. not only his Presidency and governor- more, we need to do better. In our legislation, we also call for a ship but, frankly, throughout the last Let’s answer that call by introducing national summit on Alzheimer’s to 10 years is more than commendable, and passing the Ronald Reagan Alz- bring together the best minds to exam- and it is the kind of role model that, heimer’s Breakthrough Act of 2004. ine current research, to look at prior- frankly, we expect from Nancy Reagan. Friends, we are on the brink of some- ities, and also to look at how we can She is a first-class First Lady, a first- thing that could make a huge dif- help families. class lady for all of us. ference in the lives of American fami- While we are looking at research to Again, my condolences and sympathy lies. We know that families face great find the cure or the cognitive stretch to her. And I thank her and her family difficulties when a loved one has Alz- out, we have to support the caregivers. for allowing us to share Ronald Reagan heimer’s. There is great emotional cost God bless the caregivers. These are for many years as the leader of our as well as financial cost. We know that family members, often spouses, who country. He has made this country and, for our public investment we could get take care of someone with Alzheimer’s. frankly, this world a much better place new treatments that would prolong a The first caregiver is always the fam- to live. patient’s cognitive abilities. ily. We saw that with Nancy Reagan Mr. President, I yield the floor. Each month we delay admission to a who went from being First Lady to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- long-term care facility is important to first caregiver. ator from Maryland. the family and to the taxpayer. Every- We need to support families. We need Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I, too, body wants a cure; that is our ultimate to give help to those families prac- rise in memory of President Ronald goal. But even if we keep people at ticing self-help. We now have legisla- Reagan. President Reagan will be re- home for 1 or 2 more years, to help tion on the books to do that. But, we membered for his strong convictions, them with their memory, their activi- need to add more to the Federal check- his unfailing optimism, and his deep ties of daily living, it would be an in- book. Most families don’t know where and abiding patriotism. credible breakthrough, and what a to turn to get what services are avail- My heartfelt condolences go out to great tribute it would be to President able. I have a family caregiver tax the Reagan family. They have been Reagan. credit that would reimburse families through so much in the last 10 years. It is amazing how far we have come. for prescription drugs, home health Our former First Lady, Nancy From the time President Reagan took care, and specialized daycare. Too Reagan, has met one of the greatest office in 1981 until the time he wrote often, for families with Alzheimer’s, challenges that one can face with that incredibly moving goodbye letter family responsibility brings them to grace, dignity, and dedication. Her to the Nation—and I note it with great the brink of family bankruptcy. courage is a model for the Nation. I emotion because, again, I know how There are other things we want to be know how tremendously difficult it is my own father felt. Back in the early able to do with this legislation, such as for a family when a loved one has Alz- 1980s, when President Reagan first providing news people can use. The leg- heimer’s. My own dear father suffered came to office, Alzheimer’s was a islation would establish a network so

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Truly, he is a called ‘‘Maintain Your Brain.’’ But, Alzheimer’s, providing information to man who changed the mood of the private philanthropy cannot be a sub- all of us on what we might be able to country. He changed the economy of stitute for public policy and public do to lessen the likelihood we will be the country. And in many ways, he funding. We have to fund these initia- struck with Alzheimer’s. changed the mood and the attitude of tives. As Senator MIKULSKI said, this bill the world. I believe very strongly in this. There will serve as a tribute to President People talk about President Reagan are 4.5 million people with Alzheimer’s. Reagan by doubling the funding for as the Great Communicator. Nobody They live in every State, in cities and Alzheimer’s research at the National could deliver a line better than he suburbs and on farms. They are from Institutes of Health. It would increase could. But do you know something every walk of life, like my father, who funding for the National Family Care- about communication? Communication owned a small grocery store, or a man giver Support Program to $250 million. is only as good as the message you who was the President of the United It would reauthorize the Alzheimer’s have to communicate. The power of States. Alzheimer’s is an all-American demonstration grant program that pro- Ronald Reagan was that he delivered disease. It affected an all-American vides grants to States to fill in gaps in with enthusiasm, with optimism, with President. Now we need an all-Amer- Alzheimer’s services, such as respite cheer, with love, a message of hope, ican effort to find the breakthroughs. care, home health care, and daycare. freedom, and opportunity, not just for I encourage everyone to consider this I have done a fair amount of work in Americans but for the world. when Senator BOND and I introduce home care and daycare. I can tell you I had the pleasure of getting to know this legislation. This research and that a family living with a patient Ronald Reagan. He was a genuinely op- treatment is very important. I do not with Alzheimer’s needs a break. They timistic person who brought the spirit want to be so bold as to speak for Mrs. need someone to care for that loved of optimism and hope to us as Ameri- Reagan, but based on what I know she one so they can get out and renew their cans and to enslaved peoples around has gone through and what other fami- batteries, refresh their view on life. the world. Ronald Reagan was a man lies have gone through, I believe the This can help. who took disappointment and moved legacy she would approve of is an all- We would authorize $1 million for a on. He was a man of unfailing good American effort. An effort to speed up safe return program to assist in the humor, care, and thoughtfulness. Even the day when no family ever has to identification and safe, timely return people who disagreed with his policies have that very long goodbye. of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease across the board could not help but I yield the floor. and related dementias who too fre- like him. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- quently wander off from their care- And those of us who may have dis- ator from Missouri. givers. We hear the tragedies where appointed him found it did not inter- Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I thank they can’t find their way home and fall fere with his friendship. He campaigned and commend my colleague from Mary- victim to natural or even automobile for me in 1972 when I was a 33-year-old land who has been a great champion of accidents while they are gone. We kid running for Governor of the State the effort to deal with the terribly dis- would establish a public education pro- of Missouri. I had never seen anything tressing and fatal disease of Alz- gram to educate members of the public like it. When he came into town, we heimer’s in proposing—and I am happy about prevention techniques, how you had all of the security and escorts. But to join her—a measure to honor Ronald can maintain your brain, as you age, it wasn’t until he went up on stage and Reagan, his memory, his life, his work, based on the current research being un- started making his presentation that I and his family with a living tribute, a dertaken by NIH. saw what it was that had brought so redoubled effort on behalf of this Na- We would establish a $5,000 tax credit many people from southwest Missouri tion to deal with Alzheimer’s. to help with the high health costs of in to hear this leader. He had a mes- Senator MIKULSKI and others who caring for a loved one at home. sage then—the same message—of opti- have lived with and lost a loved one Today, as Senator MIKULSKI said, mism, growth, and hope for the future. from Alzheimer’s can say very clearly about 4.5 million Americans have Alz- I was fortunate enough to be elected how difficult it must have been for heimer’s, costing about $100 billion a and to serve with him for 2 years. Two Mrs. Reagan and the Reagan family as year. But if current trends continue, years after that, I hosted the Repub- this true leader went through the final and as more of us age, by 2050, 11 to 16 lican National Convention, and I had stages of his life, crippled and debili- million individuals could have this dis- made a commitment to our President tated by Alzheimer’s, to see this man ease. at the time, who selected our State for who was so vigorous, who had contrib- Over the past 20 years tremendous the national convention. So I sup- uted so much be reduced to the indig- progress has been made in the preven- ported him and not President Reagan. nities of Alzheimer’s. tion, diagnosis, and treatment of Alz- But about 10 years later, when I was His life and legacy can be honored in heimer’s. It is now possible to diagnose running for the Senate, he came to many ways. People will remember him Alzheimer’s with more than 90-percent Missouri three times and he put on the for many reasons. I will speak of those accuracy. There are new drugs, new most amazing campaign rallies I ever in a moment. But by increasing re- treatments introduced each year, and had. We still talk about it, because search for Alzheimer’s disease, helping investments in research have set the people came to hear his message. I to limit the number and maybe even stage for scientific and medical ad- stood there, side by side with Jack eliminate Alzheimer’s, providing as- vances to prevent or slow down the Danforth, and we smiled and glowed in sistance to families who must deal progression of Alzheimer’s. Quite the wonderful feeling he generated. He with patients with Alzheimer’s, and frankly, most of the successful re- helped me a great deal. providing assistance in identifying and search to date has been in slowing the President Reagan helped the United preventing Alzheimer’s is vitally im- impact, not preventing it. But this re- States. He came to the Presidency at a portant. search offers hope for the 4.5 million time when a lot of people were saying One of the facts that struck me as we people and their families who suffer maybe the Presidency cannot work, listened to the experts was that as we from the disease today. maybe nobody can govern this country, get older more and more of us are These are some of what we can do as maybe it is too much to expect some- going to suffer from Alzheimer’s dis- an honor to the President. It is my body to lead. Well, he led very boldly. ease. We were told in our hearing about great pleasure to speak in this Cham- Quite simply, he thought that if you a month ago that if you reach 85, you ber about the life and leadership and returned tax dollars to the average have a 50-percent chance of getting the truly remarkable legacy of the 40th American and took off the fetters on

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He was the last Republican to You know, down the hall and up the stairs pockets of small businesses, and small win the State of Oregon in a Presi- from this office is the part of the White business became the engine of eco- dential election, and he did so at a House where the President and his family nomic growth, creating three-quarters time of great peril both for my State live. There are a few favorite windows I have of the new jobs. He built an economy, and our country. up there that I like to stand and look out of and that economy allowed us to put When that occurred, America was in early in the morning. The view is over the money into defense. economic malaise, communism seemed grounds here to the Washington Monument, He tried to negotiate with the Sovi- and then the Mall and the Jefferson Memo- to be in its ascendency, and America rial. But on mornings when the humidity is ets. He asked Mr. Gorbachev if he was struggling for leadership. Winston would sit down and talk with him low, you can see past the Jefferson to the Churchill once said of a predecessor as river, the Potomac, and the Virginia shore. about how we could end the competi- British Prime Minister, ‘‘He had had Someone said that’s the view Lincoln had tion between Soviet communism and the misfortune to live in a time of when he saw the smoke rising from the Bat- the United States. Mr. Gorbachev great men and small events.’’ When tle of Bull Run. I see more prosaic things: didn’t respond. So he built up our de- you think of where America was and the grass on the banks, the morning traffic fenses and showed the Russians, the where it ended after 8 years of the ad- as people make their way to work, now and then a sailboat on the river. Soviets, that they could not defeat us. ministration of Ronald Reagan, truly He went boldly to Berlin and called on I’ve been thinking a bit at that window. it can be said that all free men and Mr. Gorbachev—much to the distress of I’ve been reflecting on what the past 8 years women are better and freer, more pros- the State Department, I might add, have meant and mean. And the image that perous and more at peace because Ron- comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical and some of his own team—‘‘Mr. ald Reagan was a great man called to a one—a small story about a big ship, and a Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ great time. refugee, and a sailor. It was back in the early Well, that wall came down literally eighties, at the height of the boat people. and figuratively. He had a message As I contemplated what I could do in my small way to add some measure of And the sailor was hard at work on the car- that went far beyond Mr. Gorbachev. rier Midway, which was patrolling the South That message went to the enslaved tribute to the life of Ronald Reagan China Sea. The sailor, like most American peoples behind the Iron Curtain. I had and to express to Nancy Reagan and servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely the pleasure of visiting some of those her family my heartfelt condolences, I observant. The crew spied on the horizon a countries right before and right after thought I should keep my words to a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were they fell, a few years after President minimum and focus, instead, on the refugees from Indochina hoping to get to warm and wise words of President America. The Midway sent a small launch to Reagan had set in motion the inex- bring them to the ship and safety. As the ref- orable machine of freedom. His mes- Reagan in his farewell address. It has been the practice of the Senate for the ugees made their way through the choppy sage of hope, freedom, and opportunity seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood continues to reverberate around the last 140 years that on or around the up, and called out to him. He yelled, ‘‘Hello, world. I have had the pleasure of meet- birthday of George Washington, a Sen- American sailor. Hello, freedom man.’’ ing with people and traveling to other ator is selected to read Washington’s A small moment with a big meaning, a mo- countries and seeing how this mes- farewell address. I thought I would ment the sailor, who wrote it in a letter, sage—the American dream—he cham- begin that tradition this day, with couldn’t get out of his mind. And, when I saw it, neither could I. Because that’s what it pioned is taking hold. He wasn’t the President Reagan’s great speech, to come to the floor on or around Presi- was to be an American in the 1980’s. We only one responsible for it, but we stood, again, for freedom. I know we always never had a better proponent of it. I be- dent Reagan’s birthday, and share his have, but in the past few years the world lieve this message of the American speech—or if one of my colleagues again—and in a way, we ourselves—redis- hopes and the American ideals, for would like to do so, I would offer them covered it. which Ronald Reagan spoke so elo- the opportunity. I believe that this new It’s been quite a journey this decade, and quently, is winning the battle. tradition would be a fitting tribute to we held together through some stormy seas. Finally, in his last and boldest move, Ronald Reagan, to let Ronald Reagan’s And at the end, together, we are reaching our destination. when Ronald Reagan learned he had words speak again to the American The fact is, from Grenada to the Wash- Alzheimer’s—a disease which was not people, far more eloquently than I ington and Moscow summits, from the reces- spoken about often because people could on an occasion when we all strug- sion of ’81 to ’82, to the expansion that began hated to think of what would happen to gle to find the right superlatives to say in late ’82 and continues to this day, we’ve their loved ones, so they didn’t talk thank you to him. made a difference. The way I see it, there about it—he said, ‘‘I have Alzheimer’s So with the Chair’s indulgence, I will were two great triumphs, two things that disease,’’ and Americans woke up and read the farewell address of President I’m proudest of. One is the economic recov- they thought, this is a world leader Ronald Reagan, given shortly before he ery, in which the people of America cre- left the Oval Office and George Herbert ated—and filled—19 million new jobs. The who is suffering from this disease; let’s other is the recovery of our morale. America do something about it. Let’s get seri- Walker Bush became the President. is respected again in the world and looked to ous about Alzheimer’s disease. That The words of President Reagan: for leadership. public announcement gave us a push This is the 34th time I’ll speak to you from Something that happened to me a few that I believe we can continue by car- the Oval Office and the last. We’ve been to- years ago reflects some of this. It was back rying on with his work with a living gether 8 years now, and soon it’ll be time for in 1981, and I was attending my first eco- memorial. me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share nomic summit, which was held that year in So as we say goodbye to this remark- some thoughts, some of which I’ve been sav- Canada. The meeting place rotates among ing for a long time. the member countries. The opening meeting able American, we join in our prayers It’s been the honor of my life to be your was a formal dinner of the heads of govern- and thoughts with Mrs. Nancy Reagan President. So many of you have written the ment of the seven industrialized nations. and her family, and we celebrate the past few weeks to say thanks, but I could say Now, I sat there like the new kid in school life of a great American who made a as much to you. Nancy and I are grateful for and listened, and it was all Francois this and real difference for people throughout the opportunity you gave us to serve. Helmut that. They dropped titles and spoke the world. Let us honor his memory by One of the things about the Presidency is to one another on a first-name basis. Well, at helping millions more whom we might that you’re always somewhat apart. You one point I sort of leaned in and said, ‘My be able to save from the scourge of Alz- spent a lot of time going by too fast in a car name’s Ron.’ Well, in that same year, we someone else is driving, and seeing the peo- heimer’s disease and the burdens and began the actions we felt would ignite an ple through tinted glass—the parents holding economic comeback—cut taxes and regula- the sorrow that imposes on their fami- up a child, and the wave you saw too late and tion, started to cut spending. And soon the lies. couldn’t return. And so many times I wanted recovery began. I thank the Chair. to stop and reach out from behind the glass, Two years later, another economic summit The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- and connect. Well, maybe I can do a little of with pretty much the same cast. At the big ator from Oregon is recognized. that tonight. opening meeting we all got together, and all

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6616 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 of a sudden, just for a moment, I saw that ev- me there was a fork in the river, and it was some of the things wrong with his society eryone was just sitting there looking at me. right in the middle of my life. I never meant and is trying to fix them. We wish him well. And then one of them broke the silence. ‘Tell to go into politics. It wasn’t my intention And we’ll continue to work to make sure us about the American miracle,’ he said. when I was young. But I was raised to believe that the Soviet Union that eventually Well, back in 1980, when I was running for you had to pay your way for the blessings be- emerges from this process is a less threat- President, it was all so different. Some pun- stowed on you. I was happy with my career ening one. What it all boils down to is this: dits said our programs would result in catas- in the entertainment world, but I ultimately I want the new closeness to continue. And it trophe. Our views on foreign affairs would went into politics because I wanted to pro- will, as long as we make it clear that we will cause war. Our plans for the economy would tect something precious. continue to act in a certain way as long as cause inflation to soar and bring about eco- Ours was the first revolution in the history they continue to act in a helpful manner. If nomic collapse. I even remember one highly of mankind that truly reversed the course of and when they don’t, at first pull your respected economist saying, back in 1982, government, and with three little words: ‘We punches. If they persist, pull the plug. It’s that ‘The engines of economic growth have the People.’ ‘We the People’ tell the govern- still trust by verify. It’s still play, but cut shut down here, and they’re likely to stay ment what to do; it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the the cards. It’s still watch closely. And don’t that way for years to come.’ Well, he and the People’ are the driver; the government is the be afraid to see what you see. other opinion leaders were wrong. The fact is car. And we decide where it should go, and I’ve been asked if I have any regrets. Well, what they call ‘radical’ was really ‘right.’ by what route, and how fast. Almost all the I do. The deficit is one. I’ve been talking a What they called ‘dangerous’ was just ‘des- world’s constitutions are documents in great deal about that lately, but tonight perately needed.’ which governments tell the people what isn’t for arguments, and I’m going to hold And in all of that time I won a nickname, their privileges are. Our Constitution is a my tongue. But an observation: I’ve had my ‘The Great Communicator.’ But I never document in which ‘We the People’ tell the share of victories in the Congress, but what thought it was my style or the words I used government what it is allowed to do. ‘We the few people noticed is that I never won any- that made a difference: it was the content. I People’ are free. This belief has been the thing you didn’t win for me. They never saw wasn’t a great communicator, but I commu- underyling basis for everything I’ve tried to my troops, they never saw Reagan’s regi- nicated great things, and they didn’t spring do these past 8 years. ments, the American people. You won every full bloom from my brow, they came from But back in the 1960’s, when I began, it battle with every call you made and letter the heart of a great nation—from our experi- seemed to me that we’d begun reversing the you wrote demanding action. Well, action is ence, or wisdom, and our belief in the prin- order of things—that through more and more still needed. If we’re to finish the job. Rea- ciples that have guided us for two centuries. rules and regulations and confiscatory taxes, gan’s regiments will have to become the They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, the government was taking more of our Bush brigades. Soon he’ll be the chief, and I’ll accept that, but for me it always seemed money, more of our options, and more of our he’ll need you every bit as much as I did. more like the great rediscovery, a redis- freedom. I went into politics in part to put Finally, there is a great tradition of warn- covery of our values and our common sense. up my hand and say, ‘Stop.’ I was a citizen ings in Presidential farewells, and I’ve got Common sense told us that when you put a politician, and it seemed the right thing for one that’s been on my mind for some time. big tax on something, the people will a citizen to do. But oddly enough it starts with one of the produce less of it. So, we cut the people’s tax I think we have stopped a lot of what need- things I’m proudest of in the past 8 years: rates, and the people produced more than ed stopping. And I hope we have once again the resurgence of national pride that I called ever before. The economy bloomed like a reminded people that man is not free unless the new patriotism. This national feeling is plant that had been cut back and could now government is limited. There’s a clear cause good, but it won’t count for much, and it grow quicker and stronger. Our economic and effect here that is as neat and predict- won’t last unless it’s grounded in thoughtful- program brought about the longest peace- able as a law of physics: As government ex- ness and knowledge. time expansion in our history: real family pands, liberty contracts. An informed patriotism is what we want. income up, the poverty rate down, entrepre- Nothing is less free than pure com- And are we doing a good enough job teaching neurship booming, and an explosion in re- munism—and yet we have, the past few our children what America is and what she search and new technology. We’re exporting years, forged a satisfying new closeness with represents in the long history of the world? more than ever because American industry the Soviet Union. I’ve been asked if this isn’t Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age became more competitive and at the same a gamble, and my answer is no because we’re grew up in a different America. We were time, we summoned the national will to basing our actions not on words but deeds. taught, very directly, what it means to be an knock down protectionist walls abroad in- The detente of the 1970’s was based not on ac- American. And we absorbed, almost in the stead of erecting them at home. tions but promises. They’d promise to treat air, a love of country and an appreciation of Common sense also told us that to preserve their own people and the people of the world its institutions. If you didn’t get these the peace, we’d have to become strong again better. But the gulag was still the gulag, and things from your family you got them from after years of weakness and confusion. So, the state was still expansionist, and they the neighborhood, from the father down the we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year still waged proxy wars in Africa, Asia, and street who fought in Korea or the family who we toasted the new peacefulness around the Latin America. lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a globe. Not only have the superpowers actu- Well, this time, so far, it’s different. Presi- sense of patriotism from school. And if all ally begun to reduce their stockpiles of nu- dent Gorbachev has brought about some in- else failed you could get a sense of patriot- clear weapons—and hope for even more ternal democratic reforms and begun the ism from the popular culture. The movies progress is bright—but the regional conflicts withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has also celebrated democratic values and implicitly that rack the globe are also beginning to freed prisoners whose names I’ve given him reinforced the idea that America was special. cease. The Persian Gulf is no longer a war every time we’ve met. TV was like that, too, through the mid-six- zone. The Soviets are leaving Afghanistan. But life has a way of reminding you of big ties. The Vietnamese are preparing to pull out of things through small incidents. Once, during But now, we’re about to enter the nineties, Cambodia, and an American-mediated accord the heady days of the Moscow summit, and some things have changed. Younger par- will soon send 50,000 Cuban troops home from Nancy and I decided to break off from the en- ents aren’t sure that an unambivalent appre- Angola. tourage one afternoon to visit the shops on ciation of America is the right thing to The lesson of all this was, of course, that Arbat Street—that’s a little street just off teach modern children. And as for those who because we’re a great nation, our challenges Moscow’s main shopping area. Even though create the popular culture, well-grounded pa- seem complex. It will always be this way. our visit was a surprise, every Russian there triotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is But as long as we remember our first prin- immediately recognized us and called out back, but we haven’t reinstitutionalized it. ciples and believe in ourselves, the future our names and reached for our hands. We We’ve got to do a better job of getting across will always be ours. And something else we were just about swept away by the warmth. that America is freedom—freedom of speech, learned: Once you begin a great movement, You could almost feel the possibilities in all freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. there’s no telling where it will end. We that joy. But within seconds, a KGB detail And freedom is special and rare. It’s fragile meant to change a nation, and instead, we pushed their way toward us and began push- it needs production [protection]. changed a world. ing and shoving the people in the crowd. It So, we’ve got to teach history based not on Countries across the globe are turning to was an interesting moment. It reminded me what’s in fashion but what’s important—why free markets and free speech and turning that while the man on the street in the So- the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doo- away from the ideologies of the past. For viet Union yearns for peace, the government little was, and what those 30 seconds over them, the great rediscovery of the 1980’s has is Communist. And those who run it are Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the been that, lo and behold, the moral way of Communists, and that means we and they 40th anniversary of D-day, I read a letter government is the practical way of govern- view such issues as freedom and human from a young woman writing to her late fa- ment: Democracy, the profoundly good, is rights very differently. ther, who’d fought on Omaha Beach. Her also the profoundly productive. We must keep up our guard, but we must name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, When you’ve got to the point when you can also continue to work together to lessen and ‘we will always remember, we will never for- celebrate the anniversaries of your 39th eliminate tension and mistrust. My view is get what the boys of Normandy did.’ Well, birthday you can sit back sometimes, review that President Gorbachev is different from let’s help her keep her word. If we forget your life, and see it flowing before you. For previous Soviet leaders. I think he knows what we did, we won’t know who we are. I’m

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6617 warning of an eradication of the American tional meeting and the President flew after a narrow loss to Gerald Ford, he memory that could result, ultimately, in an to California and addressed it. spent the next few years traveling erosion of the American spirit. Let’s start Now the greatest thinkers and writ- around the country, sharing his dream with some basics: more attention to Amer- ers will take up their pens in an at- for a better United States with the peo- ican history and a greater emphasis on civic tempt to determine his place in history ritual. ple who came to hear him speak. Many And let me offer lesson number one about and his significance as one of our doubted he could do it, but once again, America: All great change in America begins greatest Presidents. For those of us he found the support he needed to win at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in who observed his service as our Presi- the Republican nomination. The con- the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And dent and admired his leadership, those test for the Presidency put him up children, if your parents haven’t been teach- questions had been long since an- against an incumbent who talked ing you what it means to be an American, let swered. For us, his place in history was about the serious problems facing the ’em know and nail’em on it. That would be a long ago determined by his place in our very American thing to do. Nation. Ronald Reagan, on the other And that’s about all I have to say tonight, hearts. hand, spoke with passionate certainty except for one thing. The past few days when Many of those who will examine his that working together the Nation I’ve been at that window upstairs, I’ve life in detail will tell a story about a could overcome them. When the votes thought a bit of the ‘shining city upon a man who was born without the great were counted, Ronald Reagan had won hill.’ The phrase comes from John Winthrop, privileges and trappings you might ex- the presidency in a landslide. who wrote it to describe the America he pect of such a successful life. That is As President, Ronald Reagan proved imagined. What he imagined was important true, but there is so much more to the himself to be a man of principle, some- because he was an early Pilgrim, an early story. one who said what he believed and be- freedom man. He journeyed here on what Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois, today we’d call a little wooden boat; and like lieved what he said. He had excellent the son of a traveling shoe salesman. communication skills, and his speeches the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a Growing up he was strongly influenced home that would be free. I’ve spoken of the on television were extremely effective. shining city all my political life, but I don’t by his mother who taught him how to When he took the oath of the office know if I ever quite communicated what I read at an early age. She urged him to as our 40th President, he took over the saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a read good books that would encourage reins of a country that had great prob- tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than him to dream and set goals in his life. lems. He had often referred to our eco- oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming She knew that he could be anything he nomic woes as the ‘‘misery index.’’ with people of all kinds living in harmony wanted to be if he was willing to work and peace; a city with free ports that There was high inflation, high interest hard and expect more of himself than rates, and high unemployment. Per- hummed with commerce and creativity. And anyone else had any reason to expect. if there had to be city walls, the walls had haps worst of all, the Nation seemed to That, more than anything else, really doors and the doors were open to anyone have lost its confidence in its ability to with the will and the heart to get here. determined his character and ulti- dare to do great things—and succeed. That’s how I saw it, and see it still. mately mapped his destiny. There was a lot of doubt and cyni- And how stands the city on this winter His natural confidence and deter- cism that any one individual could do night? More prosperous, more secure, and mination began to show itself during much to change things and re-energize happier than it was 8 years ago. But more his school years and again, later, when the Nation. Again, Ronald Reagan than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she he began his career as an actor. He was proved the doubters wrong. As Presi- still stands strong and true on the granite a natural leader and he took a leader- dent, his spirit of optimism, patriotism ridge, and her glow has held steady no mat- ship role at virtually every stage of his ter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still and personal pride in his country life. In his college days he served as a magnet for all who must have freedom, for proved to be infectious. Before long, student body president. In his acting all the pilgrims from all the lost places who there was a new spirit in the United days he served as the president of the are hurtling through the darkness, toward States, a renewed sense of pride and ex- Screen Actors Guild. In between he home. citement about our Flag and our Na- We’ve done our part. And as I walk off into worked hard and built a career as a tion that hadn’t been around for a the city streets, a final word to the men and successful actor in film and on tele- women of the Reagan revolution, the men vision. while. Ronald Reagan was just what we and women across America who for 8 years If that had been all he had done, it needed. He inspired a generation to did the work that brought America back. My would have been a remarkable life. He look toward the future with hope and a friends: We did it. We weren’t just marking renewed commitment to the principles time. We made a difference. We made the would have earned the rags to riches label and inspired others to follow his upon which our Nation was founded. It city stronger, we made the city freer, and we is still alive today. It is his legacy that left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not path just by his success in Hollywood bad at all. and on television. That would have he left with us, his gift to the younger And so, goodbye, God bless you, and God been enough for just about everyone. It generations of the Nation. bless the United States of America. was not, however, enough for Ronald During his two terms in the White I would only add, God bless Ronald Reagan. House, Ronald Reagan spoke the truth, and Nancy Reagan, and God bless the With his beloved wife, Nancy, by his regardless of the sensitivities of those United States of America. side, Ronald Reagan began to pursue who might not want to hear it. It was I yield the floor. his dream. He wanted to make a great- over the objections of much of his staff The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. er impact on the world than he could that he challenged Soviet leader Mi- VOINOVICH). The Senator from Wyo- by being a television and movie star, so khail Gorbachev to ‘‘tear down this ming. he began to take a more active role in wall’’ when he was in Berlin. It was Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, this past politics. He discovered he had a talent against the advice of much of his staff weekend, the news quickly made its for that, too. After a great deal of to refer to the Soviet Union as an ‘‘evil way across the country and around the thought and deliberation, he decided to empire.’’ For Ronald Reagan, it was world. Ronald Reagan, our 40th Presi- put his vision for America to the test. simple. If it was the truth, it must be dent, had died. For many of us, we re- He took his case to the people and said. For him, there was good guys and ceived the news with a mixture of sad- began a run for Governor of California. bad guys in the world. If the good guys ness together with a sense of relief that People thought it was an impossible worked hard and were determined to his long battle with illness was now dream and he could never win a State succeed, they won. In Ronald Reagan’s over and he had now found peace at the like California. Ronald Reagan proved world, we were the good guys. And, end of his life. them wrong. He put together a coali- during Ronald Reagan’s Presidency, I first met Ronald Reagan when I was tion of both Republican and Demo- more often then not, we won. president of the Wyoming Jaycees at cratic voters and, when all the votes For historians and the history books, the national convention which was were counted, he had made it happen Ronald Reagan will be remembered as held in California, and he was the Gov- and he was elected Governor by almost the President who brought a successful ernor. I next met the President when I a million votes. end to the cold war; had a great deal to was mayor of Gillette, WY, and the Na- Reagan then set his sights on the do with the collapse of communism in tional League of Cities held its na- Presidency of the United States and, the Soviet Union and the destruction

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He was a great leader and a great technological and scientific prowess thing I wanted to tell the President. American. His words and his actions had suddenly disintegrated in front of There was a 6-month-old infant in my will long be remembered. our eyes on our television screens. hometown of Melbourne, FL, who was Ronald Reagan dared to do the im- At a time of a grieving nation, there dying because he needed a liver trans- possible, not because it was easy but can be only one person who can speak plant. Mind you, this is 20 years ago. because it had to be done. The chal- for the country. That is the President. Twenty years ago we did not have the lenges he encountered in his life President Reagan rose to the occasion. very sophisticated system we have set brought out the best in him, and the That speech on television that night, up today which allowed people to ex- challenges we faced as a Nation under delivered from the Oval Office, was a change information about organ do- him brought out the best in all of us. masterpiece, in which he ends up nors. Twenty years ago it was catch as His is a legacy that we will always quoting a Canadian pilot from World catch can. Twenty years ago, if a donor cherish. We will miss him. War II—a pilot who had experienced became available, it was just almost I yield the floor. the joys of flying—and those immortal accidental that you found out if there The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- words that ended the poem that he had was a donor of a particular organ. And ator from Oklahoma. reached out and he had touched the when it involved an infant, like a 6- Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, does the face of God. month-old infant, you not only had to Senator from Florida wish to speak President Reagan applied that poem match the blood type for a liver trans- about the subject of the day? to the feelings of the country at the plant, but the liver had to be the exact Mr. NELSON of Florida. That is cor- time about what the seven astronauts size in order to successfully transplant. rect. had experienced. That is political ge- You can see the difficulty. You can see Mr. INHOFE. I yield for the Senator this child lie dying, with only hours to and ask unanimous consent that I fol- nius. That is a leader. That is a leader who has the ability through commu- live. low the Senator from Florida. The preparation had been made for nication to connect, to inspire, and in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the jet airplane to fly the child to the this particular case, on January 28, objection, it is so ordered. University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen- 1986, to help the Nation through the The Senator from Florida. ter where all the surgeons were stand- process of grieving, to accept what had Mr. NELSON of Florida. I will be ing by. They kept waiting and waiting happened and then pick up and move very brief. I thank the Senator from for a donor. No donor was produced be- on, which we have. Oklahoma. cause we did not know when any be- And of course, 17 years later, we had Mr. President, on this occasion, when came available. There was not an ex- another very similar kind of experience the Nation is mourning the loss of change of information. President Reagan, I wish to bring to when we lost an additional seven astro- So at my home in Melbourne, on a the attention of the Senate a couple of nauts. weekend, the call from the President of stories which are fresh in my memory That speech, in my mind, was only the United States came. He said: Bill, about President Reagan. exceeded by the speech that occurred 3 this is President Reagan. We are going I had the privilege during his two days later by President Reagan at the to have a close vote and I need your terms as President of serving in the Johnson Space Center in Houston in a vote. I said: Mr. President, I have al- House of Representatives, representing memorial service for the astronauts, ready decided that I am voting with a district from the State of Florida. the astronauts, whose bodies at that you. Now there is something that I The first story I wish to share is of a point still had not been recovered from would like to ask you, to help in the time of great loss to this country, the the floor of the Atlantic Ocean where, saving of the life of a child. I told him loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger. hopefully, they had perished before the story, and he said he would have The American people could hardly be- they ever hit the water. Hopefully, Margaret Heckler, the Secretary of lieve it. The entire technological prow- somehow that crew compartment had HHS, call me the next day and get the ess of our country was symbolized by been punctured at that altitude and particulars, which he did. America having a very successful space therefore there would have been in- Margaret Heckler immediately held a program. We were the first to the stant decompression and there would press conference, and because of that Moon. This new contraption called a have been instant loss of conscious- press conference, within 3 days, a trag- space transportation system was reus- ness. ic death of a child on the west coast of able, with new technologies that had But with all of that swirling in all of the United States that we would have been developed. America was quite our minds, with all of that swirling in never known about was known, and the proud. the minds of that NASA community— parents donated the child’s liver, which I had the privilege of flying on the NASA really is a family—again, the was of the same blood type and the 24th flight of the space shuttle, 6 days leader of the Nation had to rise to the same size. That liver was packaged and in orbit, returning on January 18, 1986. occasion to summarize and to continue cooled and flown to Pittsburgh, arriv- Only 10 days later, the crew that we the process of healing in the time of ing at the same time Ryan Osterblom had stayed with in quarantine—we had grief. arrived, as they wheeled him into sur- been one of the most delayed flights in I saw rough, tough test pilots who gery. the history of the space program—was were some of the best of the best of our Mr. President, as you can see, I have the crew of the Challenger. astronaut pilots grabbing each other a catch in my voice because that little We all know the story. Ten miles and hugging in that time of grief. And boy is going to college this year. He high in the Florida sky, the Chal- President Reagan, in the moment, gave wants to be a surgeon. After that suc- lenger’s solid rocket booster had hot comfort to all of those, especially to cessful transplant, the President had gasses escaping from a field joint in the families of that crew who were lost, called the mother, Karen Osterblom, that rocket. They happened to come led by the commander of that mission, and for years he continued to cor- out at a place where the strut was Dick Scobee. respond with them. burned. That caused the solid rocket Another story I wish to tell about It is going to be my pleasure to have motor to then cantilever and it punc- President Reagan is very personal to the family come up here on Thursday tured the big apricot-colored fuel tank me as well. It was just about the mid- as the President is lying in state and that held all of the liquid hydrogen and dle of the decade of the 1980s. I was a have them walk through the line in the liquid oxygen. The whole space shuttle Member of the House of Representa- Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol to show then disintegrated. tives. There was a particular vote com- their respects to President Reagan.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6619 Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the Then, of course, the famous speech run out of energy a little more slowly. But a floor. took place in 1964. That is when he ex- day will come when the lights will dim and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- pressed his interest in politics. But at the wheels of industry will turn more slowly ator from Oklahoma is recognized. that time my father had gotten to and finally stop. The answer obvious to anyone except those Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, we have where he was much better off, our fam- heard so many stories about a great in the administration it seems, is more do- ily was. So when ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan was mestic production of oil and gas. We must man, the Gipper, and none of them are going to run for Governor of California, also have wider use of nuclear power within surprising because he was always such my father became one of his first large strict safety rules, of course. There must be a gentle person. I have to share with contributors. Again, the friendship had more spending by the energy industries on you that I had the honor, about a never stopped at any point. So he won. research and development of substitutes for month ago, of giving the commence- At the time, after he served in that fossil fuels. ment address at Oral Roberts Univer- capacity and ran for President—I know And on and on and on. That speech sity. When I did, I used a lot of the 1964 that the Presiding Officer right now very well could have been made today speech ‘‘A Rendezvous With Destiny.’’ I knows what I am talking about be- because the problem still exists today. said it should be required reading for cause he and I were both mayors of And he knew it was coming. anyone to graduate at any level in major cities back at the same time in When he talked about the SDI, the America to read ‘‘A Rendezvous With 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected Strategic Defense Initiative, that was Destiny.’’ It is a speech that changed President. I was the mayor of Tulsa, something no one seemed to care my life. Ronald Reagan gave it in 1964. OK, for 4 years. Ronald Reagan and I about. They did not see there was any I remember I almost memorized that were closer together than we had ever great risk facing the American people. speech. In fact, I still have most of it been before—I was out in Oklahoma— Yet he saw that risk. The risk was memorized. As a result of that, the because he had me do his domestic pol- there. We all know now the risk is very next year I decided, well, if he did it, if icy stuff. He would have me on TV. At real, even today. So he looked back at he really feels this concerned, I should, that time, they did not have CNN and the ABM treaty that was put in place too, and I went and filed for office and Fox, but they had ‘‘Good Morning in 1972. ran for the State legislature. So that is America’’ and the ‘‘Today’’ show. So I He said: This is senseless now. It may how I happened to get started. would be debating all these liberal have made sense in 1972 when Henry But that is not as far back as we go. Democrat mayors on the Reagan pol- Kissinger and Richard Nixon put this I believe I have had the honor of know- icy, which was the dynamics of the free in, but the policy of mutual assured de- ing Ronald Reagan longer than any enterprise system as opposed to the struction is not a good policy. So he other Member of this U.S. Senate. In Government doing everything, and said: What we will have to do is have a fact, I am sure that is true. Even they worked beautifully. So I am sure very strong country. And he was quite though I represent the State of Okla- I spent 10 times as much time with him scriptural. He quoted from Luke: If a homa, I moved to the State of Okla- at that time than I do with George W. strong man shall keep his court well homa when I was 8 years old. I moved today, and I am here in Washington. guarded, he shall live in peace. And from Des Moines, IA. We were enjoying But it was a real pleasure. that is exactly what he was doing in the poverty of the Depression at that Those of us present—and right now I his rebuilding of the defense system of time. Everyone was poor, not just us. see in the Chamber the Senator from America. We are so thankful he did My dad was an insurance adjuster. Minnesota, Mr. NORM COLEMAN, and the that in those days. But he was saying Ronald Reagan was a sports announcer Senator who is presiding, Mr. VOINO- we must do away with the ABM treaty. for WHO Radio in Des Moines, IA, and VICH—all three of us were mayors. We Finally, after all this time, we recog- they shared the same office. They be- understand what a hard job it is. When nized 2 years ago he was right, and we came very close friends, and they used I was mayor, I was able to build a low- got rid of the ABM treaty—how pro- to play the pinball machine at that water dam, and President Reagan re- phetic. time. You guys would not know what ferred to it in his speeches as the larg- Tax cuts, this is something that he that is. I guess they don’t have those est totally privately funded public gave credit to his predecessors. He said: anymore. On Saturdays they would project in America. That was the dy- We do need more money. The best way play cards for a couple hours. All I namics of Ronald Reagan. That is what to get more revenue for Government is know is, it was a room above the drug- he thought, that Government should be to reduce tax rates. He said: That is store. But the man I had seen occasionally doing less, people doing more. And it what President Kennedy did 25 years at that time I thought of as a giant. He worked. ago. He said: He reduced tax rates. And was a very large person. We were not What a visionary the guy was. When keep in mind, that was a Democratic all that large. I remember that when I I see things that are going on today President. And by reducing tax rates, was growing up. and I remember things that he said he almost doubled the revenue coming Well, we moved to Tulsa, OK, shortly many, many years ago—right now, we in at the end of his term. It gave people after that. But we did not lose contact. have a serious problem in America. the freedom and money to invest and As the years went by, Ronald Reagan, Probably one of our most serious prob- to breathe and to reinvest in the coun- who my dad affectionately referred to lems is we do not have an energy pol- try. So that is the problem. That is as ‘‘Dutch,’’ ‘‘Dutch Reagan’’—every icy. So we make speeches. All of us what this President George W. Bush time there was a ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan make speeches on a regular basis about has been trying to do. That is the rea- movie we would see it. You see, we why we do not have an energy policy son we are out of the recession he in- never went to movies. In those days, and why we should have one. I would herited, and we are now coming out be- we just didn’t go to movies except like to read to you what Ronald cause we have reduced some of those when there was a ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan Reagan said. This was in 1979. Listen marginal rates. We know we need to do movie. It did not matter what it was carefully because this applies to today, more. This is what the President did. conflicting with. but it was 1979: If you remember, in 1980, the total One time we went to Durant, OK, in Solving the energy crisis will not be easy, amount of revenue that was generated the southern part of Oklahoma. My but it can be done. First we must decide that from marginal rates, taxes paid by peo- home was in the northern part. I re- ‘‘less’’ is not enough. Next, we must remove ple, was $244 billion. In 1990, it was $446 member driving on those roads at that government obstacles to energy production. billion. It almost doubled in that 10- time. I say to my good friend from And we must make use of those techno- year period. Yet that 10-year period logical advantages we still possess. Minnesota, the roads were—if you It is no program simply to say ‘‘use less en- was the period where we had the larg- could average 30 miles an hour, you ergy.’’ est reduction in taxes, thanks to Ron- were doing well. So we drove 5 hours Sound familiar? ald Reagan, of any 10-year period or 8- down, watched a ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan Of course waste must be eliminated and ef- year period in our Nation’s history: movie, and drove 5 hours back. We ficiency promoted, but for the government marginal rates going down from 70 per- never would consider missing a simply to tell the people to conserve is not cent to 28 percent. Yet it had the effect ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan movie. an energy policy. At best it means we will of doubling the revenues. This guy

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Military phisticated, powerful people who live solemn occasion how grateful we are historians have looked at us and said on the coast. But we know places like now to have had a President who was there is no way we could have won the that are the heartland, strong, simple, so prophetic. Revolutionary War. Here we were, a and true. That was Ronald Reagan. In talking about the freedom of our handful of farmers and trappers with What we love about the Midwest is country, he told a story about Castro crude weapons and the greatest army what America and the world came to and how a Cuban had escaped Cuba in a on the face of the earth was marching know and understand and love about small craft and had floated over to the toward Lexington and Concord, and Ronald Reagan. south shores of Florida. As his small they fired the shot heard round the To go on and on in flowery rhetoric craft came up there was a lady there, world. about Ronald Reagan would not fit the and he told the lady about the atroc- As Ronald Reagan would reflect on subject matter. Like he did so well, his ities of Castro’s Communist Cuba. that great speech by Patrick Henry, he life deserves a few well-chosen words. After he was through, she said: I guess said there are three sentences in that Oscar Wilde once said: we don’t know how lucky we are in the speech that answer the questions of Life is not complex. We are complex. Life United States. military historians, but people have is simple and the simple thing is the right thing. He said: How lucky you are? We are forgotten about it. We are not weak the ones who are lucky. We had a place when we make the proper use of those Ronald Reagan could have said that to escape to. means which the God of nature has because, surely, he lived it. Democracy is superior to com- That is what Ronald Reagan said, placed in our power. Armed in the holy munism. America is the world’s best that we would be the beacon of free- cause of liberty in such a country as hope. Liberty requires limited govern- dom, the last place in the world to es- that which we possess, we are invin- ment. The best is yet to come. Those cape to. If we lose it here, there is no- cible by any force our enemy will send where else to escape to. were Ronald Reagan’s moral anchors against us. And besides, we will not from the start of his public life to the On the recognition of the dynamics fight our battles alone. There is a just of the free enterprise system, he said: end. Without deviation, they shaped God who reigns over the destiny of na- his outlook and actions for half a cen- They also knew, those Founding Fathers, tions who will raise up friends to fight that outside of its legitimate functions, gov- tury. our battles with us. He certainly didn’t originate any of ernment does nothing as well or as economi- Those are the favorite three sen- cally as the private sector of the economy. them, but we all know they are far tences out of the ‘‘give me liberty, give He practiced that. It worked. His do- more prominent in the fabric of Amer- me death’’ speech Patrick Henry made. ican life today because of the power of mestic policies worked. For me, I think about the honor to be He was prophetic. He accurately de- his witness, as he lived his life, the able to stand here in the Senate and, scribed such things as: power of what he did with those moral on behalf of the American people and anchors as part of him. We have so many people who can’t see a fat on behalf of my wife and myself and man standing beside a thin one without com- In the last few days, we are hearing a ing to the conclusion that the fat man got our family of 20 children and grand- lot about Reagan as the Great Commu- that way by taking advantage of the thin children, to say we thank Ronald nicator. I think we put too much em- one. Reagan for his sacrifices. We thank phasis on the craft. As far as Ronald Ronald Reagan talked about bureauc- God for Ronald Reagan. We thank God Reagan was concerned, the key to racy, how difficult it would be for him for his life. We thank God for allowing being a good communicator was having to cut down the size of Government. He us to share that rendezvous with des- something to say. He was the message is the one who said, in that very fa- tiny with Ronald Reagan. he delivered, and so he touched hearts mous speech in 1964, there is nothing I yield the floor. and changed minds. closer to life eternal on the face of this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- He understood the key to American Earth than a Government agency once ator from Minnesota. progress was our spirit. Resources, formed. And he went on to explain the Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I wealth, and past accomplishments have reason for it. The reason for it is very share that sense of humility that has ruined more people and nations than simple. Once a Government agency is been so eloquently expressed by my they have made. He knew we needed a formed to respond to a problem, the friend from Oklahoma, to be able to sense of the heroic, a stirring of our problem goes away, and the bureauc- stand on this Senate floor and to thank souls to rise above selfishness, division, racy stays there. The longer they stay God for Ronald Reagan, for what he and fear. He inspired us. there with nothing to do, the stronger gave us and what we learned from him. He restored our confidence in the they become. So that happens. He was I must admit to being a bit envious to idea of leadership. Vietnam, Water- able to cut that down by reminding be in the Chamber with my friend from gate, inflation, gas lines, and the hos- people that that problem did exist. Oklahoma who knew Ronald Reagan tage crisis were causing many to won- He said in 1964: when he was a young man. der if the American hour had passed. Let’s set the record straight. There is no My friend, the Presiding Officer, on Not Ronald Reagan. He stubbornly held argument over the choice between peace and the way to the Chamber—again, we onto a wonderful vision of the future war, but there is only one guaranteed way were all fellow mayors—talked about rather than focus on temporary nega- that you can have peace—and you can have when he was mayor of Cleveland. There tive circumstances. He led us. it in the next second—surrender. were some difficult times, and he And perhaps of greatest importance, That was the message he had. You talked to the President. He talked by his own choice, Ronald Reagan was had to be strong. You had to have a Na- about what a good man the President not the star of our dramatic national tion that believes in God, and you had was. What a good man, that he really resurgence. Neither was Government. to stand up for those things and not lie cared, that he listened, and that he In Reagan’s mind and words, the heroes down and surrender. That is what peo- wanted to do things, wanted to make a who restored the American economy ple were trying to do at that time. difference. Sometimes when those and won the cold war were ordinary He said in that speech: around him were not making a dif- Americans doing simple things, doing There is a price we will not pay. There is ference, he took care of it and got it their duty—kind of like a national a point beyond which they must not ad- done. I think my colleagues were part bond raising. He united us. vance. of history being made. Mr. President, I also grew up as a That was his rendezvous with des- I was able to watch history during Democrat. President Reagan deeply in- tiny. that time. But I am honored and hum- spired me, and he had a lot to do with

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He understood eloquent voice to the convictions we fice having increased the national debt that. He showed the power of it. I un- believed we had been sent to war to ad- $1.7 trillion. Under Bush 41, in 4 years derstood that. It wasn’t just about pol- vance. In the more than 30 years that the debt increased $1.4 trillion. Presi- icy, it was about optimism. have passed since I first met him, I dent Clinton over 8 years slowed the in- When I ran for mayor in St. Paul in have never lived a day that I wasn’t crease of the debt to $1.6 trillion with 1993, my slogan was ‘‘St. Paul’s best grateful for the privilege of the Rea- spending cuts and tax increases, leav- days are yet to come.’’ When I switched gans’ friendship, and the strength of ing a projected surplus. President parties in 1996, Jack Kemp came over his faith in America that inspired my George W. Bush, with three tax cuts or to my house, and I made the announce- own, and so many others. Reagan ‘‘voodoos,’’ has eliminated the ment. It was that spirit of hope, opti- His accomplishments in office were surplus and increased the debt over $2 mism, entrepreneurship, and oppor- historic, and will be long remembered trillion in 4 years. As his chief coun- tunity that he showed worked. That as will the humility, grace and decency selor Vice President CHENEY said, was the key, by the way. For him, it with which he achieved them. It was an ‘‘Deficits don’t matter.’’ Since the be- was not about politics; it was about re- honor to have known him, and Cindy ginning days, this country has shown sults. and I shall miss him very much. We sacrifice at a time of war by adopting My friend from Oklahoma quoted offer our sincerest condolences to a tax measure to pay for the war. But President Reagan saying that solving Nancy, and to Michael, Patti and Ron, not for the War on Terrorism. We in the energy crisis wasn’t easy, but that and pray that God grants this good the Congress need a fourth tax cut, it can be done. He understood the im- man eternal life, reunites him with his voodoo, to get reelected. Today the GI portance of getting it done. daughter, Maureen, and with all his fighting the war is also going to have I think Ronald Reagan would be hon- loved ones who have preceded him. to pay for the war. At this time of re- ored to know we are shutting down the Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, at a membrance, let’s not forget that Federal Government on Friday. His luncheon with Bernard Baruch, Mr. Ba- Reagan dignified ‘‘voodoo.’’ only concern might be that we are ruch commented that Harry Truman Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, on starting it again on Monday. He ‘‘had a good memory’’ and ‘‘he also had Saturday, our Nation lost a strong changed us and transformed the world, a good bad memory.’’ We are hearing leader and the State of California lost without a doubt. Some days, Mr. Presi- both at the passing of former President an adopted son. dent, I get concerned that we are Ronald Reagan. There is no question As a citizen, Ronald Wilson Reagan changing back. that if a President is to be credited for embodied the American dream. He per- As we remember his life, I hope we the end of the Cold War that credit sonified the image of California—can- all remember that the simple things should go to Ronald Reagan. We were do, risk-taking, cutting-edge. Ronald are the right things: Freedom, hope, anxious about the depletion of our de- Reagan was all of those things. liberty, and optimism. fenses in the U.S. Senate in the year As a President, he unified a country I thank God that he gave us Ronald preceding President Reagan’s adminis- and helped bring an end to the cold Reagan when we needed him most. tration so we passed a 5 percent across- war, the premier struggle of his time in Now, this is our time. I pray that we the-board increase in the Defense budg- public life. will courageously follow his example et. But President Reagan came on My fondest memory of President and embrace America’s destiny in this board and really moved to strengthen Reagan took place while I was mayor challenging hour. our defenses, building a 600-ship Navy of San Francisco at a March 1983 din- I yield the floor. and not hesitating to deploy inter- ner the President and First Lady Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, the mediate missiles in Europe. He also hosted for Queen Elizabeth II in San strength of Abraham Lincoln’s resolve moved to formalize our ballistic mis- Francisco. The Queen was thrilled to to restore the Union, whatever the ter- sile defense system, calling it the Stra- visit California for the first time and rible cost to do so, was his unshakeable tegic Defense Initiative and increasing especially pleased to be welcomed by a faith that in America any father’s its support. President Reagan can also President from California. child could come to occupy the same be credited with a competitive trade During that trip the Queen quipped place that his father’s child had at- policy. Though he had the power to re- at one point that she knew England tained. That uniquely American con- scind the anti-dumping order on the had exported many traditions to the viction also inspired Ronald Reagan to importation of motorcycles, he let the United States, but she hadn’t realized reach his great place in our country’s order stand; reviving as we all know the weather was one of them. history and in the hearts of his coun- the Harley Davidson industry. More- San Francisco’s London-like weather trymen. I doubt Ronald Reagan was over, he imposed voluntary restraint aside, as Mayor I was enormously much surprised to become President, agreements in steel, semiconductors, proud of the wonderful welcome we had despite his humble origins. And I know machine tools and automobiles. There provided for the Queen of England. for certain he never took for granted a is no question, for example, that Intel Growing up in small-town central Il- single day he occupied the office. He would have had a hard time surviving linois in the years leading up to the believed such an honored privilege was had it not been for Sematech and Rea- Great Depression, President Reagan within the reach of any American with gan’s VRA on semiconductors. was instilled with the values that principles, industry and talent, and But at this time of praise, those with would guide him as a person and as a that once attained, it was to be held ‘‘good bad memory’’ forget it was Ron- leader. There he learned the impor- with great care to preserve for suc- ald Reagan who started supply side ec- tance of hard work and optimism as ceeding generations the blessings of onomics. Former Senator Bob Dole led the key ingredients for success. liberty that had so enriched his own the opposition to its forerunner, Kemp- It was this optimism combined with life. His patriotism, which he expressed Roth, and former President George his ever-present sense of humor that eloquently and often in his public re- Herbert Walker Bush characterized characterized him best, enabling him marks, was never affected. He believed this cutting revenues to increase them to both ‘‘fill the screen’’ and make a every word. Nor was his unfailing good as ‘‘voodoo.’’ With Reagan looking for stellar entrance wherever he went. humor and optimism an actor’s per- an issue at a low point in his adminis- After 4 years at Eureka College, formance. He lived in a shining city on tration, he locked onto supply side, ig- where he was known as a gritty, a hill, and he never forgot it. noring his campaign pledge to ‘‘balance though undersized tackle on the foot- I first met President Reagan and his the budget within one year.’’ It is good ball team, he began searching for a job lovely wife, Nancy, not long after I re- to note that in this country after 200 in broadcasting. In 1932, at the height

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And, as cities and covering University of Iowa football day. mayors across the country were reeling games and later recreating Chicago While in Sacramento, he generally from the advent of AIDS—no place suf- Cubs’ games based on telegraph re- approached fiscal policy as a moderate, fered more than San Francisco—Presi- ports, a young Ronald Reagan traveled first presiding over a $1-billion tax in- dent Reagan failed to act. He would not to California to cover the Cubs’ spring crease to balance the State budget and even publicly comment on the AIDS training. another subsequent increase. He even- crisis. It was his first trip west of Kansas tually lowered taxes, but in his two Though people did not always agree City and it nurtured his fascination terms as Governor, State spending dou- with his policies, it cannot be denied with Hollywood. While he was there, he bled overall and the State’s workforce that President Reagan redefined poli- used his considerable charm to con- grew by 34,000. tics through his tremendous skills as a vince a movie agent to arrange a As President, he was a unifier and an communicator. In particular, his abil- screen test for him at Warner Brothers optimist. His infectious, upbeat atti- ity to define clear goals and persuade Studios. tude rallied people to his goals. He was others to support those goals earned Before long, he returned to the Mid- extremely successful in passing legisla- him the admiration of many Ameri- west, packed his bags and started the tion by joining that optimism with a cans. quintessential American journey west- willingness to compromise with a As we all know, President Reagan ward in search of opportunity. Of Democratic Congress. suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease dur- course, he found it as a movie star. In his dealings, he was tough, but ing the last decade of his life. He won many fans through his on- ready to negotiate. There is no better As we honor his memory in the days screen charisma. The optimism he in- example of this than his relationship and weeks to come, it is my hope that spired was exemplified by his role as with former Soviet leader Mikhail we will consider what we can do here in Notre Dame football player George Gorbachev. He often used harsh rhet- Congress to battle this terrible disease. Gipp in the film ‘‘Knute Rockne—All- oric in challenging the actions of our A good first step would be to approve American.’’ Years after Gipp’s death, cold war adversary, but it was always legislation that supports embryonic Coach Rockne gave a pep talk to his backed by his core beliefs. stem cell research. This research offers Once, as he prepared for his first team urging them to ‘‘win one for the tremendous hope, not only to those summit with the Soviet leader, he met Gipper’’ one of the more memorable who suffer from Alzheimer’s, but also with a room full of foreign policy advi- lines in American sports history. the millions of people with cancer, dia- sors, each offering their suggestions But President Reagan’s greatest im- betes, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis about what he should say. After a half- pact on the world was as a politician. and spinal cord injuries. What a fitting hour of discussion, President Reagan As a labor leader with the Screen Ac- tribute passage of this bill would be to turned to his advisors and said, ‘‘Gen- tors Guild, his roots as an activist were President Reagan. tlemen, I’ve been thinking about what shaped significantly by a deep concern In closing, there probably is no I’m going to say to this man my whole about communism. American who has more fully lived the life. And I know exactly what I’m Yet despite his strongly anti-com- American dream from actor to Gov- going to say.’’ munist views, he condemned the unfair Gorbachev described Reagan as ‘‘a ernor to President than Ronald smearing of many liberals by Senator great President, with whom the Soviet Reagan. Today, we mourn his loss, but Joseph McCarthy and the House Un- leadership was able to launch a very recognize that his was a full life. American Activities Committee. He re- difficult but important dialogue.’’ Thank you for your service to this fused to reveal names publicly, but ex- His tough negotiating stance yielded country, President Reagan. posed some people to the FBI privately. some important accomplishments in- Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, today As Governor of California he had a cluding signing treaties reducing inter- I pay my respects to a beloved leader strong record of environmental protec- mediate-range nuclear missiles and who, with grace, wit, and charisma, led tion: adding 145,000 acres to the State’s limiting strategic arms. These acts of our country through some of the great park system, protecting Lake Tahoe diplomacy combined with his relentless challenges of the twentieth century. from rampant development, blocking advocacy for freedom played a major President Ronald Wilson Reagan was a the construction of dams on the Dos role in bringing about an end to the dedicated public servant whose con- Rios and Eel rivers, and stopping the cold war. fidence and optimism reinvigorated the paving of a federal highway through At the same time, Reagan had a American people and made him one of the Sierra Nevada Mountains that tendency to overreach in the area of the most honored and respected Presi- would have cut through the John Muir foreign policy. The invasion of Gre- dents in our Nation’s history. Trail. nada, the intervention in Lebanon that Although he lived most of his life in He also signed legislation to protect left American soldiers uncertain of California, President Reagan was a fel- rivers on California’s north coast and their role and vulnerable to attack, low Midwesterner. Born in 1911 in Tam- approved strict car emissions standards and, above all, the Iran-Contra scan- pico, IL, Ronald Wilson Reagan at- that forced the Nation’s automakers to dal—were all cases in which the tended high school in nearby Dixon and manufacture cleaner-burning cars. But Reagan Administration went too far in worked his way through Eureka Col- he lobbied against the Coastal Protec- seeking to reshape the world. lege. There he earned his B.A., played tion Act approved by voters in 1972 and At home, President Reagan sought to on the football team, and participated resisted air pollution controls imposed limit the size of government and tap in school plays. He eventually won a by the federal government. the entrepreneurial spirit of the Amer- contract in Hollywood and appeared in Despite his personal opposition to ican people. And though he was famous 53 films over two decades. abortion, Governor Reagan loosened an for cutting taxes, he approved two tax The father of four children became 1872 statute to allow abortion in cases increases during his first term in the increasingly involved in politics and in of rape, incest, when a mother’s health White House. 1966 was elected the governor of Cali- was at stake, or when there was a high Unfortunately, the tax cuts were cou- fornia, and was reelected in 1970. His risk that a baby would be born with pled with sharp increases in defense optimistic message, at a time when the birth defects. Many States followed spending that resulted in massive defi- country was beset by inflation and by Governor Reagan’s lead on this impor- cits. The Federal budget finally recov- the taking of American hostages in tant issue. ered from those years of deficit-spend- Iran, helped him to win the presidency However, his move to close down ing during the late 1990s, but the sur- in 1980. Four years later, he was re- mental health facilities in California pluses that were generated disappeared elected in a 49-state sweep. resulted in widespread homelessness in in the blink of an eye under the cur- In foreign affairs, it is impossible to urban areas. Though he sought to steer rent administration’s fiscal policies. separate President Reagan’s legacy

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His services for those suffering from Alz- Years ago, President Reagan and words and actions energized dissidents heimer’s. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill used and activists struggling for change and President Ronald Wilson Reagan to joke that, ‘‘between 9 and 5 we are for justice in the face of Communist re- helped to transform America and the enemies, but at 5 o’clock let’s go have pression and tyranny. His optimism world. He and his achievements will a cocktail together.’’ To truly honor helped to give them confidence that forever be honored and remembered. and remember President Reagan—this they were, indeed, on the right side of Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, the Cap- man of great accomplishment, opti- history. itol today is overflowing with visitors, mism, and oratory—perhaps we could President Reagan not only recog- flags stand at half-staff, and the Nation find ways to work better together for a nized the monstrous nature of Com- has collectively stopped this week—all better tomorrow. munist totalitarianism, but he also un- to honor a remarkable man who ac- I extend my deepest sympathies to derstood the horror of a geopolitical re- complished remarkable things during a the Reagan family in their time of sor- ality that made the entire world hos- remarkable time. row, and I hope it is of some comfort tage to the threat of nuclear annihila- President Ronald Reagan gave his that Americans and many others tion. He had the courage to act, to life to public service and has left a leg- throughout the world mourn by their reach out to the Soviet leadership and acy of leadership that will always be side. to craft landmark arms control agree- remembered. I suggest the absence of a quorum. ments, including one that, for the first We remember President Reagan’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time, eliminated a class of nuclear strong vision for political and eco- clerk will call the roll. weapons. nomic freedom which was instrumental The legislative clerk proceeded to On the domestic front, it was under in the fall of communism and the call the roll. the leadership of President Reagan spread of democracy in Eastern Eu- Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I ask that the solvency of the Social Secu- rope. The world held its breath as unanimous consent that the order for rity program was extended through re- America stared communism in the the quorum call be rescinded. forms to the existing program. Al- face, but in the end we peacefully won The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without though modest in their overall scope, over the respect and cooperation of our objection, it is so ordered. those reforms were seen by many as po- enemy. Less than a year after Reagan f litically risky, and President Reagan left office, Mr. Gorbachev stepped GEORGE TENET provided critical leadership that helped down, the Berlin Wall fell and the cold assure both a reluctant Congress and war ended. Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, we all an uncertain public. Today, we should I will never forget President Rea- learned recently that an outstanding build on the Reagan reforms, and gan’s historic speech on June 12, 1987, public servant, the Director of Central strengthen the existing program, as he in front of the Brandenburg Gate near Intelligence, George Tenet, has decided did. the Berlin Wall when he called on Mi- to step down. I am personally saddened Another significant domestic policy khail Gorbachev to ‘‘Open this gate! by this announcement because I believe challenge that President Reagan tack- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ the country has been well served by led was the simplification of our tax Today, the United States is working Mr. Tenet. code. In the face of special interest with Russia to replace tyranny and George Tenet started his career in pressures, and under the leadership of fear in Iraq with peace and stability. public service as part of the Senate his Secretary of Treasury, Donald Of President Reagan, Gorbachev said, family working for the late Republican Regan, as well as a bipartisan group of ‘‘A true leader, a man of his word and Senator John Heinz. He served on the members of the House and Senate, an optimist, he traveled the journey of professional staff of the Senate Intel- President Reagan was able to push his life with dignity and faced coura- ligence Committee rising to become through the last significant reforms to geously the cruel disease that darkened the committee staff director for my our increasingly complex tax code in his final years. He has earned a place in good friend Senator David Boren. 1986. history and in people’s hearts.’’ I was the chairman of the Senate Ap- At the time, I was the Chairman of We also remember Dutch, the Great propriations Defense Subcommittee the Taxation Committee in the Wis- Communicator, the Gipper as a man of during that period. Our committee consin State Senate and we were hold- great optimism and humor. My kids’ works closely with the Intelligence ing a variety of hearings around the history books recall the dates and facts Committee in determining the funding State, addressing parallel reforms. of this time, but they do not convey for our classified programs. So I be- These hearings and reforms were driv- this Hollywood actor turned Presi- lieve I can speak with some authority en by President Reagan’s proposal. dent’s good-natured spirit or genuine in saying that George was a top-notch Though far from perfect, that reform optimism for a better tomorrow. Nor staff director. And, I believe his tenure effort is another model for action we can they express his unyielding dedica- in the Senate prepared him well for the need to undertake again. And policy- tion and love for our country. However, position of Director of Central Intel- makers in Congress and the executive I believe the outpouring of respect and ligence. branch would do well to follow Presi- affection shown by the American pub- I have known every CIA Director dent Reagan’s example in this matter. lic this week says we will forever re- since Allen Dulles. I have worked Of course, no review of President member his character and personality. closely with each Director for the past Reagan’s legacy would be complete Finally, we remember a man who 30 years. All of them have been honor- without acknowledging his Alzheimer’s never stopped believing, never stopped able men, well-meaning and decent disease which, sadly, defined the last 10 advocating America’s ability to suc- public servants, but none was a better years of his life as well as the lives of ceed and prosper. He stuck to his con- Director of Central Intelligence than his family. As the author of Wiscon- victions and his visions for America, George Tenet. sin’s Alzheimer’s program, I have be- whether popular or not. Intelligence is a critical part of our come all too aware of the heart- Ronald Reagan’s initiatives didn’t national security. Obviously it does breaking tragedy that this dread dis- please all Americans and Democrats not get the public scrutiny that most ease brings to a family. and Republicans did not always agree Government functions receive. To do so President Reagan’s brave, public ac- on President Reagan’s foreign policy or would jeopardize the lives of countless knowledgment of the disease, and the domestic agenda, but he never encour- agents and analysts who serve this Na- wonderful efforts of his wife Nancy, aged or played the biting partisan tion. We limit the number of people

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