stephen breyer for his remarkable career in public service and his clear-eyed commitment to making our country s laws work for its people. and our gratitude extends to justice breyer s family, for being partners in his decades of public service. particularly i want to thank his wife dr. joanne breyer who is here today and who has stood by him for nearly six decades with her fierce intellect, good humor and enormous heart. i want to thank you. the country owes you as well. and stephen breyer s public service started early. he served in the united states army as a teenager. and all three branches of the federal government before he turned 40. during the good old days. and as he was a law clerk, supreme court justice goldberg. a prosecutor, a member of the watergate prosecution team. i first met stephen breyer when i was a senator on the judiciary