[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 30, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9149]
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             COMMEMORATING THE 80TH BIRTHDAY OF DAVID BRODY

  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, just moments ago I left a reception for a 
friend, David Brody. I am very pleased to just rise briefly and 
commemorate the 80th birthday of one of the most remarkable men who it 
has been my privilege to know, Mr. David Brody.
  He is perhaps best known to all of us in the Senate as the ``101st 
Senator,'' which was a characterization appropriately applied to him in 
1989 in a Senate resolution which passed unanimously.
  That resolution was passed on the occasion of David Brody's so-called 
``retirement'' from the Anti-Defamation League of the B'Nai B'rith. As 
I have previously noted in other remarks, it was most carefully phrased 
so as to avoid any mention of the word ``retirement.''
  There is nothing ``retiring'' about David Brody--nothing. He remains 
the essence and embodiment of energy, spirit, enthusiasm, and good will 
which he has always been.
  It has been my personal pleasure on occasion to pay tribute to David 
Brody on the Senate floor, to participate in a retirement ceremony on 
his behalf several years ago, and most recently on March 11, 1993, on 
the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the wedding of Bea and David 
Brody. I have informed David that he and I have one thing in common for 
very certain above all others, and it is that we both ``severely 
overmarried.'' The marriage and partnership of Bea and David enriches 
our lives in so many ways, a monument to their boundless love to each 
other, and to the innumerable good works of each of them individually.

  So on David's 80th birthday, I am certain he will have cause to 
reflect on his good fortune in spending evermore time and more than the 
50 years of life wedded to that fine lady. And all of us will have 
cause to reflect upon our own good fortune in having David with us for 
now 80 years.
  And our wish for him is that he may have many more years of life to 
savor. My wife Ann and I wish him Godspeed and all our love. I thank 
the Chair and I yield the floor.

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