[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 175 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S16721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             YITZHAK RABIN

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I did not hear the entire statement of the 
Senator from Minnesota, but I visited with him on the way to the 
Chamber today about his trip to Israel to the funeral. I commend him 
for what I did hear him say.
  I think all of us join in offering our prayers and condolences to the 
people of Israel and the family of Yitzhak Rabin.
  I have had on my desk for slightly over a year, a printed copy of the 
remarks Yitzhak Rabin gave to a joint meeting of Congress in 1994. The 
reason the remarks have been on my desk for a year is I was so moved 
when I heard him speak, in the House Chamber, in such eloquent terms 
about his search for peace in the Middle East, that I thought I had not 
in many, many years heard anything quite so beautiful or so profound or 
so powerful as those words. I have kept them near for some long while. 
All of us grieve for what has happened to Yitzhak Rabin and for the 
people of Israel in these days of tragedy.

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