Posted on 08/25/2016 8:04:43 PM PDT by usafa92
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CLINTON PAYS TRIBUTE TO SEN. BYRDs
July 17, 1994B
Author/Byline: ERIN KELLY
President Clinton paid homage to Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Sunday night, joking about the senator’s reputation for bringing federal projects to West Virginia.
“Senator Byrd said he couldn’t support the space station unless I was willing to move the U.S. capital to West Virginia,” the president said. Pausing, he added, “I’m still considering it.”
The president spoke to about 1,000 people at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at a tribute to Byrd in honor of the West Virginia Democrat’s 35th year as a senator.
Byrd began his political career in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1946, the year Clinton was born. Despite their age difference, Clinton said he and Byrd share the same humble country roots. “I admire Robert Byrd, and based on his own family history, I identify with him so much,” Clinton said. “If this were not a truly astounding country, Robert Byrd could not have become who he is.”
The tribute, sponsored by the non-profit West Virginia Society of Washington, D.C., raised about $200,000 toward the creation of a Robert C. Byrd Library in the senator’s home state.
The proposed library would offer scholars and the public a place to study the history and inner workings of Congress, with emphasis on the Senate and the leadership role Byrd has played, tribute spokesman Mike Fulton said.
A site for the library has not been chosen, and it is not known how much the privately funded building ultimately will cost to build, staff and maintain, Fulton said.
“It’s an ambitious project that is just in the formative stage,” said Mike Perry, chairman of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce and one of the volunteers who will raise funds for the library.
“Hopefully, this tribute will be the spark that ignites it.”
Perry said a library would be an especially fitting memorial to Byrd, who is known as the Senate’s unofficial historian and Congressional scholar. The senator has written two books on the history and traditions of the Senate.
Clinton said he has read the books cover to cover. “I did so fearing I would be given an exam,” Clinton joked.
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The demographics of the Whitewater development would have appealed to all the Klan members in nearby Harrison, Ar.—home of the Harrison lumberman who sat in the stands with Nixon, Papa Bush, Fulbright, Kissinger, etc... . Hammerschmidt the businessman beat Clinton in his first Congressional race.
He will win. That will be the easy part of what needs to happen.
The really nice thing about Hillary is that she has soooo many skeletons and so much dirt that she can't really prepare to defend it all.
Exactly. Obama had essentially no record to attack in 2008, and had incumbency and the MSM spinning for him about his first term when he ran in 2012. Hillary, on the other hand, has skeletons that go back to her participation in the Watergate investigation as a staffer.
This seem like a big mistake. Black outreach working.
I would never say live long and prosper to them either. I do not wish them well. They are evil.
Don’t you mean “slither?” As in back under a rock?
Thank you for getting this all together lest we forget...
and for those youngens’ who were too young to pay attention in ‘08.
Trump has promised to unleash on her, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
This may prove to be the most exciting and memorable election of my almost 70 years.
I’m ready for the fireworks to begin!!!
Hilary does not have the temperament to be President. Verbally bullying Vince Foster in front of colleagues forcing him to commit suicide isn’t exactly a nice person with a balanced temperament.
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