[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 95 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H5729-H5730]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 FURTHER REMEMBRANCE OF LOUIS GOLDSTEIN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella) is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, it is nice to follow my colleagues from 
Maryland in tribute to a man that we all loved who was indeed Mr. 
Maryland. Whoever thought you could love a tax collector, but that was 
Louie Goldstein. He was our tax collector, and everybody did loved him. 
Whether they were Independents, whether they were Republicans, whether 
they were Democrats, they were all citizens of Maryland and all good 
folk, as far as Louie was concerned.
  I first met Louie Goldstein when I was in the State legislature 
serving with the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) when been was 
speaker. I was on the Appropriations Committee and, indeed, Louie would 
come in and he would give us his estimate about what was happening with 
regard to the finances of the State. It was interesting how he could 
point to any one of the members of that committee, and he could 
remember and he could reveal anecdotes about their background, about 
their lives, about the district that they represented, an incredible 
memory, the kind of memory that we in public service only wish that we 
had, where we could remember everything about all of the people with 
whom we work.
  He did serve on that very powerful Board of Public Works. He, with 
the governor and with the treasurer, had a tremendous amount of power. 
And as has been mentioned, he used it exceeding well. He was a very 
prudent man, came off as kind of corn pone in terms of the folksy 
humor, but had a brilliant intellect and a sense of good investment. 
And yes, indeed, he did love southern Maryland, Calvert County, which 
our colleague, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), represents and 
where I have a little log cabin. I drive on that highway which says, 
dedicated to Louie Goldstein.

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  That is not all that was dedicated to him. The people of that area 
are indebted to him for the fact that he believed very much in green 
spaces. He believed very much in land investment.
  I think there is some land that he may well be giving to that 
particular area, because he did agree with Shakespeare, to nature none 
more bound, and he did all he could to preserve nature. He had many, 
many yarns. It was interesting that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. 
Cardin), my good colleague, mentioned the fact that he died on the 3rd 
of July.
  I was at that parade that he was at, because it was in my district in 
Montgomery County, Maryland, and it was in Germantown, Maryland where 
he was in the parade and he rode in the car with Senator Sarbanes, 
which was behind our car. And he had his little gold coins, the phony 
gold coins which everybody collected because they represented the fact 
that friendship is golden, and that is exactly what he demonstrated.
  So we will miss this 85-year-old man who gave so much of his life to 
public service and who loved people and who loved life and who made 
Maryland all the better and, for all of us in public service, was a 
role model, an inspiration for all of us. And truly, he believed that 
attitude is altitude and, indeed, if that is the case, as I believe it 
is, too, he is way up there in terms of altitude.
  And so our very best wishes and condolences to his family. I am proud 
to be here in tribute with my colleagues to Louie Goldstein.

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