[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H779-H780]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PRESIDENT ATTEMPTS TO BASK IN HEROES' HONOR

  (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, my father, Harry Joseph Dornan, who is the 
hero of my life, died 21 years ago today. He would be tormented today, 
as I am, by the lack of character and integrity at the highest level of 
our Government.
  Mr. Speaker, he took me and my brothers into the Oval Office in 1941, 
and he held the White House and its occupant in a certain awe and 
respect. Even liberal writers say that the White House has been dragged 
down to the street level over the last 3 years.
  Last night, amidst that snow job, Mr. Clinton did it again. He put 
heroes in the gallery trying to reflect in their honor and glory, and 
that is not possible when Paula Corbin Jones is going to get her day in 
court. And then he put a hero in this front row who, like 

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my dad, he was wounded three times fighting for freedom, Barry 
McCaffrey, the general who was told in the White House 2 years and 10 
months ago, ``We don't talk to people in uniform here.''
  Barry McCaffrey will be a superb drug czar, but when Clinton pointed 
out that he had three Purple Hearts and two Silver Stars, he could not 
gag out the word ``Vietnam.'' He could not say he won those honors in 
Vietnam.

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