The majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Speaker, thank you very much. I will be on the floor again talking about the failed policy in afghanistan. Mr. Speaker, most people in my district know ive signed over 11,000 letters, condolence letters of families who lost loved ones in afghanistan and iraq because of the unnecessary war we fought in iraq. In the last two weeks we were ome for the july fourth break. They were two weekends. I signed 16 letters to families who lost loved ones in afghanistan. Mr. Speaker, its almost like we in congress dont know were still at war but yet there are young men and women dying in afghani
It is to deploy a server of my friends for so long, what about regretted the war as i was out with them when it ended for the companionship of two and a half years of death and misery is a spouse that tolerates no divorce, such companionship finally becomes part of ones soul and cannot be obliterated. The experience with ernie pyle miss about you. He wanted to hear that story. He wanted to tell it well and honestly so you could connect with people you have never seen. His early career before he started as a war correspondent, he was a journalist, wound up as managing editor for the washington daily times. At a certain point he got tired of being stuck in the office and managed to sell them on the ideas being a roving reporter. So he and his wife would pack up the car and in exchange for six columns a week, they traveled the country. He was always committed to telling ordinary People Living ordinary lives and they really gave him a chance to exercise telling a story beautifully and simp
But it was a great labor of love to learn more about them. People often ask me, how did you pick these hundred people . One of the great one of the things the was the most fun about the book was reading about these hundred people. I recently analyst to a 250 people. I contacted friends and others that did not know out of the blue from historians, journalists, like our first, and ask them for their recommendations of people. And then made a point of trying to identify people, some of the more famous and many of whom were not well known. There are three kinds of people in the book and the three categories of people. One group of them are organizers and activists, people like eugene debs and the socialist party, the early 1900s. People like alice paul, the great suffrage leader it was probably more responsible than anyone else for women getting the right to vote and a leader of the Womens Suffrage Movement in the early 1900s. She was also an advocate of civil disobedience. She and others
Prevent. And irwran that will stop at nothing to in secret develop a nuclear weapon. Many military analysts say a strike on iran, even a very good one delays that option. Leave one additional thought. Wharf whatever you thought of libyan intervention. It set off a whole bunch events it africa. That was predictable. Let me give you view of iran to operation in libya. This is what happens when you give up your wmd program. So my last question for you on this evening, after this remarkable career of 39 years in the military, listening in on all these bad actors and conversations for all your years in intelligence, the National Security agency, being at the cia and seeing everything from the trains blown up in madrid to the towers come down when you were at nsa in new york, are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to human nature . I am, in another venue, described reading the president s daily preefs and all the stuff that is not ready for prime time every morning, six or seven da
Cleveland. Oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter. Cleveland was a bachelors of cleveland kind of accepted responsibility to pay for the child to go to an orphanage. But heres where the other part of the scandal comes in. Oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident writing, driving his carriage, recklessly drunk, apparently breaks his neck. He leaves a widow and his young girl. Grover cleveland makes an enormous amount of money as his law partner, and cleveland kind of takes care of the widow and the young girl, pays for them, sets them up in a nice home. He becomes the godfather, if you will to the little girl. They are very close. She calls him on coca leaves, which should be part of a hint. He pays to send her to college. What happens is as francis is growing up, clevelands relationship with her changes. Changes from uncle cleve to a romantic interest. Cleveland start sending her letters and poems and roses. Its a fullcourt press on courting her. You can w