[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 92 (Monday, July 17, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S6991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PRAYERS AND REFLECTIONS

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I express my appreciation also once again to 
our Chaplain of the Senate, Lloyd John Ogilvie, and for his remembering 
our friend and my most trusted confidante, most reliable lieutenant, 
the Senator from Georgia, Paul Coverdell. I don't know of a Senator who 
works any harder or has a more indomitable spirit. I noticed 
particularly Friday afternoon how happy he was as he took leave of this 
Chamber because of the vote that we had just taken and realizing that 
he would have the opportunity to be home in Georgia on Friday afternoon 
and on Saturday. Our thoughts and our prayers are with him as he 
apparently undergoes a surgical procedure at this hour. I thank the 
Chaplain for his prayer.
  Coincidentally, this weekend I also had a little more time than I 
anticipated and was able to spend some time thinking about our country 
and reading some books. One of those that I read was ``Going For The 
Max,'' by Senator Max Cleland, also of Georgia. It is a really 
inspirational book about his life and his experience as a Vietnam 
veteran and the recovery period he had to go through and the 
inspiration from things he had learned in his life--12 principles of 
life that he had learned and on which he relies. I talked to him this 
morning to tell him how much I enjoyed his book; that I was inspired by 
it. And he said he was at that very moment standing there looking at 
Piedmont Hospital where our friend, Senator Coverdell, is, and he was 
saying a prayer for him. He offered to cover any meetings or 
appointments that needed to be done today or this week by Senator 
Coverdell.
  That is the kind of real love and appreciation and bipartisanship we 
need more of in this institution and in our lives. So I encourage my 
colleagues in the Senate, if you have not read it, get a copy of 
``Going For The Max,'' and it will be an inspiration to you.

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