[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 68 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 26, 1994]
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                           KEEP OUT OF HAITI

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, Presidents, and this is a bipartisan 
scandal, like to do sneaky things sometimes when the Congress is out. 
They like to defy overwhelming votes of the expression of this Chamber 
and the other body.
  We better not go into Haiti and put men and women now in harm's way 
against the will of both these Chambers for the likes of Aristide.
  We had better not do that within a few days of two young widows being 
awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor for their husbands being killed 
in the streets of Mogadishu where we had taken away their aerial 
gunships, the AC-130 Hercules, and denied them armored cars and tanks 
for rescue recovery.
  We better not go into Haiti.
  Do Members recall when people were trying to compare themselves to 
Truman in both parties about fighting heart? Here is one thing where 
politicians all the way up to the highest office forget to emulate the 
words of Harry Truman.
  Truman in the great David McCollough prize-winning book Truman said 
this:
  ``Any man who is dissolute with women is not to be trusted 
entirely.'' Here are Truman's exact words out of one of his diary 
entries: ``A man not true to his wife, a man not honorable to his 
marital relations is usually not honorable in any other relation.''

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