[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11265]
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                      TRIBUTE TO SENATOR SAM NUNN

  Mr. EXON. Mr. President, I would like to proceed in making some brief 
statements with regard to several of the retiring Members that this 
Senator has had the honor of serving with.
  Let me start, Mr. President, if I might, with a statement with regard 
to the great Senator from Georgia, Sam Nunn. We will be leaving the 
U.S. Senate together. This Nation will likely lose the most important 
Senator of all with regard to national security and foreign policy when 
my colleague Sam Nunn departs this body.
  I believe Senator Nunn is one of the greatest leaders of the current 
era. He has been a leader and a close personal friend and confidant of 
mine since the very first day I came here 18 years ago. Sam Nunn has 
been my Democratic leader on the Senate Armed Services Committee. We 
have worked closely together, and always in harmony, on many, many 
issues of vital importance to this Nation's national security. Sam has 
been a stalwart in helping to win the cold war. I remind all that Sam 
is, bar none, the Senate's top expert on national security matters. No 
one has done more to help recruit and retain the Nation's soldiers, 
sailors, airmen, and marines, who are on duty today and are the best 
that we have ever had in uniform in our Nation's history.
  I was proud to be a charter member of the informal ``Sam Nunn for 
President'' group in 1988. I believed then, and continue to believe to 
this day, that Sam Nunn would have been an outstanding President of the 
United States. Sam has the unique qualities of being strong in his 
principled viewpoints and yet compromising in the means to achieve his 
goal. In short, Sam Nunn is a true statesman in every respect of the 
word. I will always treasure my association and my friendship with him. 
Pat and I want to wish him and his family all of the best and, indeed, 
all of the blessings of the future.

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