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thank you all for being here. and heather, we honor you today. you were there all along guiding and ack anying tom across all the peaks and the valleys right to the end. e thank you for your spirit, your generosity and your example as h enlivened this house well as your own for many years. welcome back. inempty it ismous ironic he ran for congress in the first place. he actually did it in a moment of anger. the day was july 16, 1964. the beetles had just returned to liverpool after their first u.s. tour. president johnson had recently signed the civil rights act and was on his way to a landslide victory that november. and a 35-year-old tom foley was having lunch in downtown spo can. a gifted lawyer from a prominent local family and trusted aid to scoop jackson. some mentioned to the guys he was eating lunch with he was thinking seriously about running for congress, not this time but the next time around. at which point one of his lynch companions bluntly dismissed the ....
so he and friends hitchhiked to a service station to get it fixed. as they approached the outskirts of the city, they ran out of gas. so they pushed the car up the hill, coasting into town just before the deadline. tom went on to win the race by a resounding 54 votes. there is no question there may have been some luck of the irish operating when it came to tom foley, as well as incredible stamina. what led him to make history as the first speaker of the house from west of the rockies was not luck. it was his hard work. his deep integrity. and is powerful intellect. as michael so eloquently and movingly stated, his ability to find common ground with his colleagues across the aisle. it was his personal decency that helped him bring stability and order to a congress that demanded most both, and still does. it brings me to a final point. at a time when our political system can seem more polarized and more divided than ever before, it can be tempting to see the possibility ....
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The race for village president in Sugar Grove in the April 6 election includes incumbent Sean Michels, who is seeking his fifth term, and current Trustee Jennifer Konen. ....