[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 43 (Monday, April 20, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3248-S3249]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      THE HONORABLE TERRY SANFORD


                     August 20, 1917-April 18, 1998

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I was regrettably late in learning about 
the inevitable death of former U.S. Senator Terry Sanford this past 
Saturday, April 18. I say inevitable because it was. All of us, 
especially Terry himself, knew what was coming when last December the 
fatal inoperable cancer was discovered.
  Terry faced up to the reality of it all with his typical courage. He 
told reporters at the time that he would continue to be active as long 
as he could, and take every day as it came. Then he plunged into a 
whirlwind fund-raising schedule on behalf of a project near and dear to 
his heart.
  It was impossible not to like and admire Terry Sanford. He was never 
one of my supporters, nor was I ever one of his. But we were friends 
and there was never a hint of discord during his six years in the 
Senate--or before, for that matter, or since.
  As Senators who were here during Senator Sanford's six years will 
testify, Terry was a respected colleague. For my part, I always had the 
feeling that he had been vastly more comfortable being Governor. He 
could push a button then and things happened. Not so with the Senate. 
We sort of canceled each other's vote in the Senate much of the time he 
was here but there never was an instance when we didn't work together 
for the betterment of North

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Carolina. And there was never the slightest hostility.
  In short, Mr. President, I liked Terry Sanford. He has undeniably 
left his mark upon the destiny of the state he loved--and certainly 
upon Duke University which was the multi-million dollar beneficiary of 
his skillful fund-raising ability.
  He lived life to the fullest; he was a man who loved his family and 
his country. If he ever wasted a moment, I am not aware of it.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that The Washington Post 
report of Senator Sanford's death, published April 19, 1998, be printed 
in the Record.
  There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

               [From the Washington Post, Apr. 19, 1998]

         Terry Sanford, Ex-U.S. Senator and N.C. Governor, Dies

                            (By Martin Weil)

       Terry Sanford, 80, a former governor of North Carolina and 
     president of Duke University, whose career as a widely 
     admired and respected Democratic political leader culminated 
     with a term in the U.S. Senate, died of cancer yesterday at 
     his home in Durham, N.C.
       An amiable man, loyal to his party but known also for 
     independent thinking, Gov. Sanford became known early in his 
     career for an ability--based on both personality and 
     principle--to achieve substantial political success in a 
     political environment often thought uncongenial to the 
     moderate or progressive views he espoused.
       This, and his high profile leadership at Duke, attracted 
     the interest and support of many Democrats both inside and 
     outside his native North Carolina, who saw him as 
     representing their party's possibilities of survival in the 
     South, at a time when a Republican tide was sweeping through 
     what had once been a solidly Democratic region. Ranked in a 
     Harvard University study as one of the 20th-century's most 
     creative governors because of his achievements in the 
     statehouse from 1961 to 1965, Gov. Sanford made forays onto 
     the national stage in the 1970s; in 1972 and in 1976, he 
     sought unsuccessfully his party's presidential nomination.
       Gov. Sanford's inoperable cancer was diagnosed in December. 
     He underwent a second round of chemotherapy last week before 
     being discharged on Wednesday from the Duke University 
     Medical Center.
       Heart valve surgery during his campaign for reelection to 
     the Senate made his health a campaign issue at that time, and 
     was believed to have contributed to his defeat. Indeed, his 
     election to the Senate in 1986 was seen as a kind of last 
     hurrah for a 69-year-old whose electoral career had seemed to 
     peak years before.
       In the Senate, he had made a mark for the forcefulness of 
     his opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. 
     Bork. He was also remembered for taking a strong stand in 
     opposition to the nation's embarking on the Persian Gulf War.
       It was Gov. Sanford's reputation as a moderate among his 
     fellow Senate Democrats that led them to choose him in 1988 
     to respond to a speech by President Reagan attacking the 
     campaign against the Bork nomination.
       ``We are tired of having our integrity impugned,'' Gov. 
     Sanford said in what was viewed as an eloquent defense of the 
     Senate's right to withhold its consent from presidential 
     nominations. ``We are tired of having our sincerity 
     questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence 
     insulted.''
       The speech, coming from a man who could not be readily 
     characterized as an extremist, was viewed as a landmark in 
     the campaign that led to the rejection of the nomination.
       Even after his 1992 defeat at the hands of Republican Lauch 
     Faircloth, Gov. Sanford, a paratrooper in World War II, had 
     continued a life of vigorous activity.
       He had been president of Duke from 1969 to 1985, a tenure 
     of unusual duration in one of the most turbulent periods for 
     American higher education. After his defeat, he taught 
     classes there in government and public policy, wrote books, 
     held the rank of senior partner in a law firm, and served as 
     a director of charitable, legal and educational 
     organizations.
       Gov. Sanford was born Aug. 20, 1917, in Laurinburg, N.C. 
     where his father was a merchant and his mother taught in the 
     public schools. Dishwashing helped him pay his way through 
     the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, from which 
     he graduated in 1939. He served in 1941-42 as an FBI agent.
       Shortly after the United States entered World War II, he 
     went into the Army; he became a paratrooper, and was involved 
     in five major campaigns in Europe, including the Battle of 
     the Bulge, rising from private to first lieutenant. He held 
     the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Bronze Star and the 
     Purple Heart. A back injury that plagued him for the rest of 
     his life stemmed from his paratrooper service.
       After the war, he graduated from law school at Chapel Hill, 
     served as assistant director of the university's Institute of 
     Government and began the private practice of law in 
     Fayetteville. He served in the state senate in 1953 to 1955.
       During his years as governor, he focused on improving 
     public education. He advocated legislation to raise teacher 
     salaries and create a community college system and was known 
     then as one of the nation's ``education governors.''
       He financed many of his improvements with a sales tax on 
     food that he justified in a speech as a ``small measure of 
     sacrifice . . . that would swing open the doors to our 
     children . . . and provide the opportunities that will put 
     this state in the front ranks of our community of 
     states.''
       He was credited with starting an antiproverty program, with 
     helping to defuse tensions over race by setting up Good 
     Neighbor Councils and with calling for employment without 
     regard to race, creed of color. It was Gov. Sanford who was 
     credited with launching North Carolina's State Board of 
     Science and Technology to help convert scientific advances 
     into new techniques for the state's industries.
       North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. said Gov. Sanford's 
     optimism and commitment to excellence in public education 
     ``have changed us forever.''
       Hunt said that in 1960 he ``plugged into the campaign to 
     elect him governor and to me he was the best one ever.''
       In his first month as Duke president, he showed the 
     flexibility that enabled him to survive and harness the 
     currents of protest that unseated many of his colleagues.
       Students blocked traffic in a protest of the shootings of 
     students at Kent State University in Ohio during a Vietnam 
     War protest. Gov. Sanford seized a bullhorn, endorsed the 
     students' anger, but advised: ``Don't fight us. Let us all 
     fight Washington together.''
       Later, the students threatened to take over the school's 
     main administration building. ``Great,'' he said. ``Take me 
     with you . . . I've been trying to occupy it for a month.''
       After stepping down in 1985 from the presidency at Duke, 
     Gov. Sanford was elected to the U.S. Senate.
       Survivors include Sanford's wife of 52 years, Margaret; his 
     son, Terry Sanford Jr.; his daughter, Betsee; two 
     grandchildren; and two sisters.

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I note the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. ROTH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kyl). Without objection, it is so ordered.

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