December 21, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H 15557 opposition.’’ The two men agreed to try to Castro. knew that such Cuban refugee ger and Nixon,’’ Stone’s ‘‘Nixon’’ and a forth- unite a divided country, while recognizing troops were being trained secretly by the coming History Channel program titled their differences. CIA under President Eisenhower’s direction. ‘‘ ‘The Real ’ 31⁄2 documentary No one ever asked me or any other persons Nixon felt that for him to take this hard hours of Tricky Dick.’’ portrayed in the movie what the facts were. line, as had Kennedy would break the code of The A&E Channel also has scheduled a COFFEE HIS BEVERAGE secrecy he held as vice president. He, there- two-hour presentation of Nixon on ‘‘Biog- The Nixon on Stone’s screen drinks almost fore, was made to look weak with a sugges- raphy,’’ to air in january. Its producers say constantly and comes off as an evil, angry tion urging a blockade. it is a true documentary. buffoon who believes that his problems cen- The encounter made Nixon so angry that it f was difficult to prepare him for the all-im- ter on not being understood by anyone in- FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, VETERANS, cluding his wife. portant final debate. He had me call CIA Di- Nixon was not a teetotaler, but coffee was rector Allen Dulles to see if Dulles had told AND CHILDREN BEING HURT his beverage during the day, and I can recall Kennedy about the secret training exercise. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a only a half-dozen times in almost 50 years Dulles denied this, but Nixon did not believe him. This exercise later became the Bay of previous order of the House, the gentle- when I saw him bordering on too much to woman from Georgia [Ms. MCKINNEY] is drink during the evening. Pigs. Stone touches on Nixon’s feelings toward In of the 1960 campaign, recognized for 5 minutes. the Kennedys, and at one point Nixon is seen Nixon was forced during the debate to take a Ms. MCKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, I have staring at a picture of President Kennedy weaker position than he believed in, and come to the floor this evening to voice and asking: ‘‘When they look at you they see Kennedy scored points. my utter dismay at how our Federal what they want to be. When they look at me, None of this was in the movie, but I recall employees, our veterans, and children they see what they are.’’ taking reporters to Club 21 for a drink, hop- ing that would distract them from what was are being treated by this GINGRICH-led That probably portrays Nixon’s true feel- farce called leadership. Republicans are ings. He disparged ‘‘Eastern intellectuals’’ going on. I became angry during the movie when hurting those who do not deserve it. and yet he knew that, in truth, he was an Nixon was portrayed in sinister fashion as ‘‘intellectual’’ who liked to feel he was out- We have dedicated employees in the ready to bomb civilians in Hanoi, North side the Eastern elite community. Some of State, Justice, and Commerce Depart- Vietnam. Stone goes to the trouble of show- those he admired most were eliteist. He re- ments who are being manipulated by ing Nixon turning back a steak that was so sented the fact that the Kennedys ‘‘got away those who claim that they care about raw that blood covered his plate. This bloody with everything’’ and that the news media the American people. We have Medi- scene was supposed to be symbolic, but it al- and Congress looked for faults where he most made me sick. care recipients and children who will could be criticized. At one time, (chief do- The fact is that Hanoi was bombed, and not receive benefits because the Repub- mestic-policy adviser) John Ehrlichman Per- nearby Haiphong was mined, a bold move licans simply do not care. We have de- suaded Nixon to set up a Camelot-like ‘‘royal that forced the North Vietnamese to agree to guard’’ for the . That lasted only voted State Department employees a cease-fire. I recalled that Henery Kissinger a few days. who were called in from furlough to and I were in Hanoi immediately afterward, The most dramatic parts of the film come cope with an airplane disaster in the and I saw with my own eyes that Hanoi civil- in conversations between Dick and Pat dangerous hills of Bogota, Colombia. ians were spared, but military targets such Nixon. Those obviously are fabrications as bridges and airfields were hit with preci- There are individuals who were deemed since no one witnessed them. Allen plays Pat sion. This was not in the movie. nonessential and are not being paid but Nixon’s role well and shows her to be family- Among those who will resent this film are risking their lives to travel into oriented, warm and intelligent. The Pat most will be Henry Kissinger. Only recently, the guerrilla-controlled hills of Colom- Nixon I knew also was a strong and caring he was unfairly depicted as being evil in ‘‘first lady.’’ The film wrongly portrays her bia to insure that Americans’ lives are Turner Broadcasting’s TV movie, ‘‘Kissinger as a chain smoker. She smoked occasionally protected. and Nixon.’’ In the Stone movie, Kissinger in private. appears to be a devious fat, sycophant who b 1915 Nixon used to say everyone loves Pat. He was almost ousted from the White House was right. This is the Christmas season. This is During the scenes between the president staff by (White House chief of staff) Bob the season where good will toward men and his wife, Nixon refers to her with the Haldeman and aide Chuck Colson. One of Kissinger’s happiest moments was should be the order of the day. How- nickname ‘‘Buddy.’’ I had never heard that, when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. ever, we appear to have many Members Nixon’s daughter, Tricia Cox, whose White The disparaging movies may provide Kissin- of this body who have a personal agen- House wedding is portrayed tastefully, told ger with some new low points in life. da that not only casts a scrooge-like me she never heard her father use the name When, in ‘‘Nixon,’’ I saw the Kissinger Buddy, but she does recall that Buddy was a haze over this season and the lives of character having lunch or dinner with re- childhood nickname for her mother. Americans, but demonstrates a cold- porters at Washington’s Sans Souci res- Julie Nixon Eisenhower also is shown hearted callousness for the well-being taurant, I recalled dining in the same cafe pleading with her father not to quit. That and often wondering what Kissinger was of our elderly, our children, our most was a plea Julie made, but the passion of the leaking. This did become a White House con- vulnerable citizens. real Julie was far greater than that of the troversy, and he may have wondered the I am here this evening because it is a actress () who portrays her. same thing about me. sad day for America and this Congress. STONE OBSESSION But the movie’s implication that Kissinger We have a few Members of this body As I watched the film unfold, the most sur- was about to lose his job was the opposite of holding the entire country hostage, prising innuendoes concerned Castro, the truth. The film reminded me of times when and behaving as if they are, in fact, in- Bay of Pigs and a mysterious attempt by I was in Haldeman’s office or on an airplane volved in a guerrilla war themselves, Stone to insinuate that there was some type and heard Kissinger—then the frustrated na- of plot involving Nixon, Howard Hunt, the tional security adviser—seek to displace Sec- high up in the hills of the Sierra CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, the Mafia and the retary of State Bill Rogers. No one effec- Madre. It is unfortunate that my col- Kennedy assassination. tively threatened Kissinger. leagues on the other side of the aisle Over the years, I have heard discredited For me, the saddest moments of the movie have truly made this a season not to be theories involving the CIA or the FBI, Ken- came near the end, when Nixon finally be- jolly. nedy and the Mafia and attempts to assas- gins to comprehend that he has lost the bat- I also have a lot of constituents who sinate Castro. Stone seems to attach these tle, that he is about to be forced from office. are undergoing quite a bit of concern long repudiated stories to Nixon as if the I had left the staff a year earlier. right now as it relates to the 11th Con- former president had some part in the death Stone is more sympathetic in these scenes of John Kennedy. That, of course, is pure and allows Nixon to ask why no one remem- gressional District and the recent rul- Stone obsession on Kennedy assassination bers what he did in ending the war, in open- ing from the judges that really turns plots. ing relations with China and what he did in the entire congressional map upside The vagaries of the Cuban-plot theories did the SALT treaty agreements with the Soviet down, topsy-turvy, and places incum- stir within me memories of some of the most Union. bent Members of Congress in the same tense moments of the Nixon campaign I left the theater wondering why the movie district, and generally creates havoc on against Kennedy in 1960. was made and seeking quiet where I could the congressional election plain, just a Just prior to the fourth and final debate again sort out fact and fiction. between the two candidates, both men ad- I also pondered the coincidence that within few short months away. dressed an American Legion convention in less than two years after Nixon’s death, we While we are here trying to protect Miami, Kennedy got major applause with suddenly see a flurry of shows reviving the the rights of average, ordinary Ameri- comments about organizing a force to attack and Watergate—TNT’s ‘‘Kissin- cans who are going to be hurt by this H 15558 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE December 21, 1995 shutdown of government services, we have not had an opportunity as a Re- Only in this place when you spend 50 also need to note that, particularly to publican conference to lead in 40 years. percent more do people call it a cut; my constituents who are concerned, What we have done in that short period Medicaid, growing from $9 billion to that also the Department of Justice is of time, Mr. Speaker, I think is ex- $127 billion, Medicare from $178 billion shut down. That means that if there traordinary. We passed major reforms in the seventh year to $289 billion. are some who are interested in the in the first day of the session by reduc- That clearly is an increase in spending. timely filing of an appeal to the Su- ing the size of Congress, reducing the Mr. Speaker, we are cutting some preme Court for the drastic measures number of committees, reducing the programs, and maybe some we should that were taken by the lower court in staff on committees, requiring or no not, but we had to make choices. Now Georgia, we are just out of luck, be- longer allowing proxy votes, requiring it is up to the President. We have spent cause the Department of Justice is all committee meetings to be open to a whole year working on our budget. among those whose Federal employees the public, requiring that Congress live We have closed it and advertised it, and have been called off of the job. under all the laws we impose on every- have proclaimed it to our constituency We have definitely got to do some- one else. I want to say that again; to and the entire United States. Now it is thing to put our Federal employees require Congress to live by all the laws time for the President to say where his back to work. The work of our govern- that we impose on everyone else. priorities are. ment employees is necessary, it is es- Mr. Speaker, we not only voted dur- A member of our conference pointed sential, it is valuable, and it is critical. ing the beginning of the year for a bal- out that we have been authors and the To deny our Federal employees pay- anced budget amendment, but we did President has been a critic. It is impor- checks just a few days before Christ- something obviously more important, tant now that the President be an au- mas is about the most cold-hearted we voted to balance the budget. That is thor of what he favors and show us what he wants, and then compare the kind of treatment that I have ever, what I want to address at this point. two options. I think we can have an ever thought that anybody could visit Mr. Speaker, we are going to get our agreement on 24 hours, as soon as the upon other people. financial house in order and balance President and the leaders in the Demo- f our Federal budget. At the same time we are going to save our trust funds, cratic side of the aisle, the gentleman The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. particularly Medicare, from insolvency from Missouri [Mr. GEPHARDT] and the TIAHRT). Under a previous order of the and then ultimately bankruptcy. Our gentleman from South Dakota [Mr. House, the gentleman from New Jersey Medicare fund will go bankrupt if we DASCHLE], determine that the Amer- [Mr. SAXTON] is recognized for 5 min- do not take corrective action to restore ican people want to balance the budget utes. funds in the Medicare Part A fund, in 7 years and get our financial House [Mr. SAXTON addressed the House. which will go bankrupt in 7 years. We in order. We are not asking that they agree to what we are doing with Medi- His remarks will appear hereafter in are looking to transform our caretak- care and Medicaid or the tax program the Extensions of Remarks.] ing social and corporate welfare state or our discretionary spending. We are f into a caring opportunity society. We asking them to present their plan, see are set to do all three of these objec- FRESHMAN REPUBLICANS DEDI- where we agree and, where we agree, tives, and we are working hard to ac- CATE THEMSELVES TO GETTING case closed. Where we disagree, then AMERICA’S FINANCIAL HOUSE IN complish that task. Mr. Speaker, Prime Minister Rabin, iron out our differences. ORDER Ultimately, the President is the who was the former prime minister in President of the United States. He is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Israel, made it very clear that he going to have to pass judgment on previous order of the House, the gen- viewed his responsibility this way. He what we do. There will have to be an tleman from Connecticut [Mr. SHAYS] said he was elected by adults to rep- is recognized for 5 minutes. agreement. But rather than com- resent the children. That is what I promise, we are looking to find com- Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Speaker, it is one of think Members in Congress have to do. the greatest privileges in the world to mon ground and save this country from We are talking about not having a hor- bankruptcy. We are determined to get serve in Congress and represent con- rific debt that mortgages our country’s stituents who have sent you to Wash- our financial House in order and bal- future. ance the Federal budget. We are deter- ington. I have had the pleasure as well We have a plan. The plan is very sim- mined to save our trust funds, particu- to represent a smaller constituency in ple: We balance the budget in 7 years. larly Medicare, from bankruptcy. We the State House in Hartford, and it Admittedly, we have a tax cut. What are determined to transform this social never ceased to amaze me, as a State do we do? We balance it in 7 years. I and corporate welfare state into an op- legislator, how I as a State legislator could forego a tax cut if we balance the portunity society and end this cycle of had to make sure that our State had budget in 6 years, but I will be darned 12-year-olds having babies, 14-year-olds its financial house in order, and yet the if I am going to reduce the tax cuts and selling drugs, 15-year-olds killing each Federal Government could deficit then take what we had saved to allow other, 18-year-olds who cannot read spend. I often wondered how those men for tax cuts and just spend more their diplomas, 24-year-olds who have and women in Congress could do such a money. We are allowing this Govern- never had a job, and 30-year-old grand- terrible thing to our country, to bur- ment to grow. In the past 7 years we parents. That has to end. den future generations with horrific spent $9 billion. We are going to spend We need to transform this society debt, on which we have to pay annual $12 billion. The issue is should we spend into truly what is an opportunity soci- interest payments which are in excess $13 billion in the next 7 years. We say ety. I look forward to doing that, and of over $235 billion annually. no. The other issue is we say it should working with colleagues on both sides Mr. Speaker, when I got down to be balanced by the seventh year. of the aisle to accomplish that task. Washington I vowed that getting our Mr. Speaker, I constantly hear about Mr. Speaker, I would just conclude by financial house in order would be my Republican cuts to the budget. They saying I am proud to serve in this in- first and highest priority, making sure are just not true. At least they are not credible opportunity as a Member of that we balanced our Federal budget. I true when they refer to the earned in- Congress, and to represent the people have seen during the past 8 years that come tax credit, a very important pro- of the United States. there has been here a greater aware- gram to provide proactive financial as- f ness that we needed to do this and sistance to individuals who do not pay more and more Members willing to put taxes, but work. The earned income tax REEMPHASIZING THE DETERMINA- their, candidly, political lives on the credit grows from $19.9 to $25.4 billion. TION OF REPUBLICANS TO BAL- line to do that. The school lunch program under our ANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET I pay special salute to the freshman plan grows from $5.1 to $6.8 billion. The The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a class that have joined us this year, be- student loan program grows from $24.5 previous order of the House, the gen- cause this number of 73 Members has to $36 billion. That is a 50-percent in- tleman from Colorado [Mr. MCINNIS] is given us the opportunity to lead. We crease. recognized for 5 minutes.