Be out and about having conversations with all of you. This is my 1228th town meeting as a member of congress and its great to be back. We tried to be do one in every county on an ongoing basis. I have a couple things i want to say and then will go to questions. This is my first visit to great bend since the death of bob. She was my longtime friend. Bob and polly were great friends and great supporters. We spent our honeymoon with bob and polly at the Republican National convention in 1984. They are great friends of my wife. We now live in manhattan and we drove to great bend for the h Birthday Party only to arrive with three cars in the parking lot and i walked in and said what happened, am i in the wrong place and they said dont you know, bob died yesterday. He missed his Birthday Party by one day. Secondly, on a topic of interes interest. Im not a veteran but i grew up with vietnam in the back of my life and solve what happened to many who served in our military as they returned hom
Meeting as a member of congress and it is great to be back. We tried to do one in every county on an ongoing basis. Just a couple of things i want to say. This is my first visit to great bend since the death of bob parish. Bob and polly were great friends and great supporters. We spent our honeymoon with bob and polly at the Republican National convention in 1984. Bob was interested in his community and the history of this community. We now live in manhattan and we drove to great bend for the 90th Birthday Party only to arrive with three cars in the parking lot and i walked in and said, what happened, am i in the wrong place . And they said, dont you know, bob died yesterday. He missed his Birthday Party by one day. Secondly, on a topic of interest. Im not a veteran but i grew up with vietnam in the back of my life and saw what happened to many who served in our military as they returned home and worked hard to make it a point of making sure those who serve our country receive the care
Meeting as a member of congress and it is great to be back. We tried to do one in every county on an ongoing basis. Just a couple of things i want to say. This is my first visit to great bend since the death of bob parish. Bob and polly were great friends and great supporters. We spent our honeymoon with bob and polly at the Republican National convention in 1984. Bob was interested in his community and the history of this community. We now live in manhattan and we drove to great bend for the 90th Birthday Party only to arrive with three cars in the parking lot and i walked in and said, what happened, am i in the wrong place . And they said, dont you know, bob died yesterday. He missed his Birthday Party by one day. Secondly, on a topic of interest. Im not a veteran but i grew up with vietnam in the back of my life and saw what happened to many who served in our military as they returned home and worked hard to make it a point of making sure those who serve our country receive the care
John. Michelle, the breaking news is that bob corker, the senator from tennessee, republican who chairs the Foreign Relations committee, has told the Washington Post he has withdrawn from consideration as Donald Trumps running mate. It underscores the question hanging over trumps running mate process, which is who exactly can he entice to run with him. Can he get given how controversial his reputation is, can he get a young rising star in republican politics, or does he got to pick somebody like newt gingrich, the former house speaker, chris christie, the governor of new jersey, who doesnt have much of an electoral future given controversies that have weighed them down. Bob corker is somebody who has been rising within the senate and in republican politics. He says the job of being the Vice President ial candidate is more political than he wants. That hes more of a policy guy. Not comfortable being the attack dog in the campaign. So he has taken himself out. Weve still got some others,
I just buried our youngest in back and youre not going to have anything left. You need to come home. Will examine the vietnam war of the 1960s have experiences of Charlie Company discussing the battlefield of vietnam and we soldiers have to fight upon return to the United States. Veterans have been just as political footballs. They been used as part of a morality play. They been just as many things but hardly anybody had gotten to tell their story who they were as young men before they went, the trauma of war that they went through both as great victories, its funny times, its horrible times and then what happened to the generation since they had been home. The 1966 length of civil rights activist advanced of the ku klux klan. For what reason did anybody want to come and kill my dad . They came as result of the orders from the head of the klan who said go annihilate. And they came to kill the whole family. And learn about the Freedom Summer School programs during the summer of 1964 whe