[colorado tanker]

He was a great man for what he did to get Congress behind defeating the Sov's in Afghanistan. You don't see them any more, Scoop Jackson Democrats, liberals on domestic policy but conservative on foreign and defense. It was because of Dems like this that Reagan could govern.

Of course, I loved the movie. My favorite line was something like this (from memory):

Tip wanted me to ask you if --

He wants me to take a seat on the Ethics Committee.

Yeah

Well, hell, I'm on the other side of that issue!

LOL!

[Liberty Valance]

LOL! Great lines.

At another point in the movie (he drank a lot) he was coaching his secretaries what to tell the press if asked why he wouldn’t go into rehab ...The standard reply was to be: “Because they don’t serve scotch in rehab”.

[Liberty Valance]

He wants me to take a seat on the Ethics Committee.

Well, hell, I'm on the other side of that issue! ~ L O L !