[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 538 Introduced in House (IH)]







 108th CONGRESS
   2d Session
 H. RES. 538

   Honoring Dick Brown: New York's greatest ambassador to Washington.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2004

 Mr. Rangel submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Honoring Dick Brown: New York's greatest ambassador to Washington.

Whereas Richard Arthur Brown, known to his friends as Dick Brown, was one of the 
        greatest ambassadors the city of New York has ever had in Washington, 
        DC;
Whereas he passed away on February 13, 2004, at the age of 85;
Whereas he was a native New Yorker, raised in Manhattan, educated at City 
        College of the City University of New York and New York University;
Whereas among the considerable talents he applied in advancing his passion for 
        politics were the arts of journalism and publicity, including a weekly 
        column which appeared in the New York Post;
Whereas his first love was his beloved wife Vivian and his family, and after 
        them the great city of New York and the world of politics;
Whereas, after returning home from service in the U.S. Army in Panama, he became 
        entrenched in New York City politics where, in 1949, he founded the 
        Lexington Democratic Club and became a leader of the Reform Movement in 
        Democratic politics;
Whereas in that capacity he worked closely with Eleanor Roosevelt, Governor 
        Lehman, and New York Post publisher Dorothy Schiff in spreading the 
        message of political reform around the city;
Whereas I first met Dick Brown when I was serving as an Assemblyman in the New 
        York State Legislature and invited him to work with us on the mayoral 
        ticket headed by Jim Scheur;
Whereas Dick later served as Scheur's chief of staff in Washington when he was 
        elected to Congress;
Whereas Dick Brown's move to Washington was one of the best things that ever 
        happened to spread the gospel in the Nation's capital about all the good 
        things that were available in the great city of New York;
Whereas Dick Brown mastered the role as New York's impresario to Washington; as 
        the executive director of the New York Festival which I helped to found 
        in the 1970's, Dick Brown showcased New York in ways no one had ever 
        seen before; all of its best foods, wines, culture, theater and the arts 
        took center stage on one glorious night each year;
Whereas those days will never be forgotten, when the strains of Frank Sinatra's 
        anthem to our city, New York, New York, rang over the nation's capital; 
        for that we will forever owe Dick Brown our gratitude; and
Whereas Dick Brown is survived by his wife, Vivian, daughter and son-in-law 
        Jennifer and Leonard Greenberger, his grandchildren Brandon and Rachel 
        and his sister Roselyn Freeman: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, that Dick Brown will forever be remembered as a great 
American political reformer and as one of New York's greatest 
ambassadors.
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