Good evening, everyone. I am a trustee of the u. S. Capital Historical Society. Welcome to our celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Senate Committee on appropriations. This committee traces its origins to 1816, making it one of the first Standing Committees established by the senate. It is also one of the most powerful committees, and one of the largest. We are so grateful to the generous donors who helped make this evening possible. Bank of america, independent Community Bankers of america, airlines for america, leonardo drs, and mr. Terry lehrman. Thank you all so much for making tonight possible. We will begin the evening with the presentation of the colors by the Capitol Police ceremonial unit and the pledge of allegiance. Please rise. Present. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Several distinguished guests have joined
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more