[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 22, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1347]
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                         RECOGNIZING ALAN EMORY

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                           HON. AMO HOUGHTON

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 22, 1999

  Mr. HOUGHTON. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in recognition of Alan Emory. 
On June 7, Mr. Emory began his 53rd year with the Watertown Daily 
Times. He has spent more than 47 of those years reporting and analyzing 
news in Washington. A year ago he became the paper's senior 
correspondent, reporting on politics and Canadian-United States 
relations, in addition to writing two columns a week, one Op-ed in 
midweek, one in the Times' Sunday Opinion Weekly Section.
  Mr. Emory's most recent work includes breaking stories on: the 
dispute over the John Kennedy assassination film between the Zapruder 
family and the government, the assassination review board's failure in 
its last report to end the theories of how the President died, the 
continued federal secrecy surrounding the late physicist Glenn 
Seaborg's diaries, the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling that 
a sitting President must answer civil suit charges involving pre-White 
House activities, the fact that the House of Representatives has never 
censured a sitting President, the saga of the Navy crew making the most 
daring air-sea rescue in World War II's Pacific fighting and the 
service high command's refusal to give the crewmen the medals they had 
been promised 54 years ago, and the word that the only New York City 
mayor ever to ascend to a higher political office in the state was 
named Clinton (DeWitt).
  Two years ago President Clinton and Vice President Gore saluted Mr. 
Emory's 50 years with The Times, and last year my colleagues John 
McHugh, Jerry Solomon, Jim Walsh and Tom Davis commended him on the 
House floor. Today I would like to echo their praise and thanks to Alan 
for his good work, and wish him well as he continues as the Johnson 
Newspaper Corp.'s (Watertown's) senior correspondent and Washington 
columnist.

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