[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 6041-6052]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    TRIBUTE TO SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following 
tributes by current and former members of the Senate and House of 
Representatives at the memorial service for the late Senator Alan 
Cranston be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

     Memorial Tribute to Sen. Alan Cranston by Senator Max Cleland

       On February 6, over 200 admirers gathered in Hart SOB 902 
     to pay tribute to our dear friend Alan Cranston, who left us 
     on the last day of the year 2000. Joining with me as sponsors 
     of this event were the Senators from West Virginia (Mr. 
     Rockefeller), California (Mrs. Feinstein and Mrs. Boxer), and 
     Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), and the former Senator from 
     Wyoming (Mr. Simpson). Ten members and former members spoke, 
     and a short film about Senator Cranston's recent activities 
     was shown. At the end of the program, Alan's son, Kim, spoke. 
     It was a memorable afternoon for all in attendance.
       The Program Cover pictured Alan and his beautiful, now 
     seven-year old, granddaughter Evan. On the second page 
     appeared the following words of the Chinese poet and 
     philosopher Lao-Tzu, which Alan carried with him every day:

     A leader is best
     When people barely know
     That he exists,
     Less good when
     They obey and acclaim him,
     Worse when
     They fear and despise him.

     Fail to honor people
     And they fail to honor you.
     But of a good leader,
     When his work is done,
     His aim fulfilled,
     They will all say,
     ``We did this ourselves.''--Lao-Tzu

       The program participants and sponsors were shown on the 
     third page as follows:
       Musical Prelude: United States Army Strings.
       Introductions and Closing: Judge Jonathan Steinberg.
       Speakers: Senator Max Cleland, Senator Alan Simpson, 
     Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator 
     Barbara Boxer, Representative G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, 
     Representative John A. Anderson, Representative George 
     Miller, Senator John Kerrey, Senator Maria Cantwell, and Kim 
     Cranston.
       Family in attendance: Kim Cranston, Colette Penne Cranston, 
     Evan Cranston, and Eleanor (R.E.) Cranston Cameron.
       Event Sponsors: Senators Cleland, Simpson, Rockefeller, 
     Kennedy, Feinstein, and Boxer.
       The back page of the program set forth Senator Cranston's 
     Committee assignments and the acknowledgments for the 
     Tribute, as follows:
       Senator Cranston's 24 years of service in the United States 
     Senate exceeded that of any California Democratic Senator and 
     was the second longest tenure of any California Senator. He 
     was elected Democratic Whip seven times, and his service of 
     14 years in that position is unequaled. His Committee service 
     was:
       1969-93: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
       1971-73 and 1975-79: Chairman, Subcommittee on Production 
     and Stabilization.
       1973-75: Chairman, Subcommittee on Small Businesses.
       1979-85: Chairman or Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee 
     on Financial Institutions.
       1985-87: Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on 
     Securities.
       1987-93: Chairman, Subcommittee on Housing and Urban 
     Affairs.
       1969-81: Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Human 
     Resources).
       1969-71: Chairman, Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs.
       1971-73: Chairman, Subcommittee on Railroad Retirement.
       1971-81: Chairman, Subcommittee on Child and Human 
     Development.
       1981-93: Committee on Foreign Relations.
       1981-85: Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Arms 
     Control, Oceans, International Operations, and Environment.
       1985-93: Chairman or Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee 
     on East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
       1977-92: Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Chairman or 
     Ranking Minority Member.
       In addition, Senator Cranston served on the Committees on 
     the Budget (1975-79) and on Nutrition and Human Needs (1975-
     77), and on the Select Committee on Intelligence (1987-93).
       Event Planning and Arrangements: Bill Brew, Fran Butler, 
     Kelly Cordes, Chad Griffin, Bill Johnstone, Susanne Martinez, 
     Dan Perry, Ed Scott, Jon Steinberg, Lorraine Tong, Elinor 
     Tucker.
       As I said at the Tribute, I would not be in this body were 
     it not for Alan Cranston. My colleague, the Senator from 
     Washington (Ms. Cantwell), expressed that same sentiment in 
     her remarks. Alan Cranston will always be an inspiration for 
     us. He will live in our memories and the memories of all 
     those who served with him and were touched by the causes he 
     championed and in the hearts and minds of those he so ably 
     represented in his beloved State of California. Following are 
     the transcript of the Tribute, and the document, 
     ``Legislative Legacy, Alan Cranston in the U.S. Senate, 1969-
     1993,'' that was distributed at the Tribute.

   A Legislative Legacy--Alan Cranston in the U.S. Senate, 1969-1993


                              An Overview

       As an eight-year-old boy, Alan Cranston lost his first 
     election to be bench monitor in his Los Altos grammar school. 
     As an adult, he became the state's most electable Democrat 
     and one of the most durable and successful California 
     politicians of the 20th Century. During decades of political 
     and social turbulence, when no other California Democrat was 
     elected more than once to the U.S. Senate, Alan Cranston won 
     four Senate terms in the Capitol, serving a total of 24 
     years. It is a California record unmatched except for the 
     legendary Hiram Johnson, a Republican who held his Senate 
     seat from 1917 to 1945.
       In addition, Cranston was elected to seven consecutive 
     terms as the Senate Democratic Whip, the number two party 
     position in the Senate. That, too, is an all-time Senate 
     record for longevity in a leadership post. Alan Cranston is 
     credited with rebuilding the Democratic Party in California 
     through grass- roots activism and organization. In the mid-
     1950s, he organized the then- powerful California Democratic 
     Council, a vast network of party volunteers that in 1958 
     helped sweep Republicans from most statewide offices. Edmund 
     G. ``Pat'' Brown was elected governor, Democrats seized the 
     California Legislature, and Cranston began two terms as State 
     Controller of California.
       Senator Cranston sought the Democratic Party nomination for 
     President in 1984. His campaign, though ultimately 
     unsuccessful, raised to new heights public support for 
     international arms control and a superpower freeze on nuclear 
     weapons.
       In terms of political style, Senator Cranston drew upon an 
     earlier Earl Warren tradition of bipartisanship, and was well 
     served by a diversified base of political support. 
     Representing the California mega-state in the Senate, 
     Cranston skillfully balanced a wide array of insistent and 
     sometimes conflicting state interests. He steered a delicate 
     course between the state's giant agribusiness interests and 
     those of consumers, family farmers and farm workers; he 
     weighed the claims of home builders and growing communities 
     with the need to preserve open space and wildlife habitats; 
     and he nurtured and led the California epicenter of the 
     national arms control and peace movements, while effectively 
     representing the home of the nation's defense and aerospace 
     industry.
       The record of Congressional measures from 1969 to 1993 adds 
     up to a catalogue of literally tens of thousands of 
     legislative actions on which there is a Cranston imprint. 
     These include the large events of the past quarter century--
     Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights, the rise of 
     environmentalism, conflict in the Middle East, Watergate, the 
     energy crisis, and equal rights for women.

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       The Cranston mark is on thousands of bills and amendments 
     he personally authored affecting virtually every aspect of 
     national life. Without this legislative record, America would 
     be a different and poorer place in the quality of life and 
     environment for a majority of our people. Rivers would be 
     more polluted, the air less clean, food less safe. Fewer 
     opportunities would be open to all citizens, fewer advances 
     made in medicine and science; there would be less safe 
     conditions in workplaces.
       Despite facile and careless cynicism about the work of 
     government, the achievements of the nation's Legislative 
     Branch from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s have made a 
     distinct and meaningful difference in the lives of millions 
     of Americans. Alan Cranston's particular contributions to 
     progressive legislation is notable. The difference a single 
     U.S. Senator can make is demonstrated by a study of all votes 
     cast in the Senate over two decades in which the outcome was 
     decided by less than five votes and often by a single vote. 
     Between 1969 to 1989 there were over 2,500 such votes in 
     which Alan Cranston's influence often was critical to the 
     outcome.
       The figures do not include thousands of legislative 
     decisions reached by less narrow margins. Nor do they reflect 
     the additional influence of Senator Cranston as a behind-the-
     scene strategist, nose-counter, marshaler of forces and 
     shrewd compromiser who always lived to fight another day. The 
     sum of thousands of ``small'', quiet, often little-noticed 
     and uncelebrated legislative actions over near a quarter-
     century adds up to steady progress in nearly every area of 
     American life.
       As for one man's place in such a record, former Vice 
     President Walter Mondale called Senator Cranston: ``The most 
     decent and gifted member of the United States Senate.''
       Even with so diverse a legislative record, certain points 
     of emphasis and priority emerge. Although never an ideologue, 
     Senator Cranston was passionate in pursuit of world peace, 
     for extending opportunities for those left out of the 
     mainstream, and for protecting the natural environment. Asked 
     by a reporter what he ``goes to the mat for,'' Cranston 
     replied: ``Peace, arms control, human rights, civil rights, 
     civil liberties. If there's an issue between some very 
     powerful people and some people without much power, my 
     sympathies start with those who have less power.''
       During the eight years that remained to him after he left 
     the Senate, Alan Cranston worked tirelessly on issues of war 
     and peace, speaking out for human rights, and for preserving 
     the environment of the planet for present and future 
     generations. In 1996, he became chairman of the Global 
     Security Institute, a San Francisco-based research 
     organization which he founded together with former Soviet 
     President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail S. Gorbachev 
     to promote world peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.


                             EARLY HISTORY

       Few people in modern history have entered the U.S. Senate 
     as freshmen better prepared than Alan Cranston to combine 
     lifelong concerns over foreign and domestic policy with an 
     understanding of the inner procedural, political and human 
     workings of the institution. It was a preparation which made 
     it possible to gain and hold on to Senate power as Democratic 
     Whip for 14 of his 24 years in Congress.
       In 1936, as a 22-year-old foreign correspondent he joined 
     the International News Service (later part of United Press 
     International), immediately after graduating from Stanford 
     University. He was sent on assignments to Germany, Italy, 
     Ethiopia and England in years leading up to the outbreak of 
     World War II. He personally watched and listened as Adolph 
     Hitler whipped his audiences into mass frenzy. He saw 
     Mussolini strut before tens of thousands in Rome. He covered 
     London in the fateful years ``while England slept,'' and he 
     watched as the world seemed helpless to act against the dark 
     march of fascism.
       Three years later, following his return to the United 
     States, Cranston learned that an English-language version of 
     Hitler's ``Mein Kampf'' was being distributed in the U.S. He 
     was alarmed to discover that, for propaganda purposes, parts 
     of the text had been purposefully omitted. These were 
     passages which would have made clear the nature and full 
     extent of Hitler's threat to the world. To warn Americans 
     against Hitler, he wrote a complete and accurate version of 
     the book, with explanatory notes making the Dictator's real 
     intentions clear. It was published in tabloid form and sold a 
     half-million copies before a copyright infringement suit 
     brought by agents of the Third Reich put a stop to its 
     further distribution.
       Senator Cranston's strong commitment to human rights and 
     peace, and his alertness to the dangers of totalitarian one-
     man rule, were clearly shaped by witnessing first hand the 
     rise of fascism in Europe and the deadly chain of events 
     leading to the Second World War and its Cold War aftermath. 
     His first work in Washington, serving in 1940 and 1941 as a 
     representative of the Common Cause for American Unity, 
     entailed lobbying Congress for fairness in legislation 
     affecting foreign born Americans. This activity gave him an 
     opportunity to learn at close range the inner workings of the 
     Senate.
       With the outbreak of war, Cranston served as Chief of the 
     Foreign Language Division of the Office of War Information in 
     the Executive Offices of the President. When offered a draft 
     deferment in 1944, he declined it and enlisted in the Army as 
     a private, where he was first assigned to an infantry unit 
     training in the U.S. Because of his experience as a foreign 
     correspondent and journalist, he became editor of Army Talk. 
     His rank was sergeant by VJ Day.
       While still in the Army, he began researching and writing a 
     book in hopes of influencing international decision-making in 
     the post-war world. It was an account of how, in the 
     aftermath of the first World War, a handful of willful men in 
     the U.S. Senate, opposed to President Wilson and the 14-point 
     peace plan, managed to prevent U.S. participation in the 
     League of Nations, ultimately undermining the peace and 
     setting the stage for a second World War.
       In 1945, ``The Killing of the Peace'' by Alan Cranston was 
     published. The New York Times rated it one of the 10 best 
     books of the year. The book served to warn against the folly 
     of repeating the same isolationist mistakes that followed 
     World War I. The Cranston book also presented a meticulous 
     description of the byzantine inner workings of the U.S. 
     Senate during the debate over ratification of the League of 
     Nations treaty. At age 31, the future Senator revealed a full 
     appreciation of the critical role played by individual egos, 
     personalities and interpersonal relationships in the 
     legislative process, and showed how awareness to such human 
     factors could be critical in determining the outcome of a 
     vote.
       The immediate post-war years in Washington and publication 
     of The Killing of the Peace marked the real beginning of 
     Cranston's determination to become a member of the Senate. He 
     wanted to enter that institution where he could promote world 
     peace and causes of social justice.
       From 1949 to 1952 he served as national president of the 
     United World Federalists, dedicated to promoting peace 
     through world law. He was a principal founder of the 
     California Democratic Council, established to influence the 
     direction of the Democratic Party in the state, and was 
     elected as the first CDC President in 1953 and served until 
     1958.
       He was elected California state controller in 1958, which 
     placed him among the top ranks of the party's statewide 
     elected officials. He was reelected in 1962 and served until 
     1966.


                          SENATE ACHIEVEMENTS

                            Foreign affairs

       Elected to the Senate in l968, during the height of 
     fighting in Vietnam, Senator Cranston quickly allied with so-
     called ``doves'' which were a distinct minority in Congress 
     at that time. Together with Senator Edward Brooke of 
     Massachusetts, Alan Cranston co-authored the first measure to 
     pass the Senate cutting off funds to continue the war in 
     Southeast Asia. The Brooke-Cranston Amendment paved the way 
     to the U.S. Congress ultimately asserting its prerogatives 
     over military spending and provided for the orderly 
     termination of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
       Senator Cranston played key roles in shaping the SALT and 
     START arms pacts, and in framing debate on virtually every 
     new weapon system, arms control issue and foreign treaty from 
     1969 to 1993. A recognized leader on the Foreign Relations 
     Committee, Alan Cranston was a highly respected voice on 
     behalf of arms control, nuclear non-proliferation, peaceful 
     settlement of international conflict, human rights around the 
     world, sensible and compassionate approaches to immigration 
     and refugee issues, foreign trade and long range solutions to 
     problems of famine, disease and oppression in the Third 
     World.
       In addition to U.S.-Soviet relations, those specific areas 
     of foreign policy in which Senator Cranston made a 
     significant impact include the passage of the Panama Canal 
     Treaty, efforts to bar military aid to the Nicaraguan 
     contras, aid to Israel and efforts toward peace in the Middle 
     East, helping to bring a halt to U.S. involvement in a civil 
     war in Angola, and opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

                       Environmental legislation

       Among the legacy of Alan Cranston's years in the Senate is 
     a wealth of parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, wild 
     rivers, scenic areas and coastline protection measures. With 
     just two bills in which Alan Cranston and Rep. Phillip Burton 
     of San Francisco teamed--the Omnibus Parks Act of 1978 and 
     the Alaska Lands Act of 1980--as much acreage was placed 
     under federal protection as all the parks lands created 
     earlier in the 20th Century combined. Senator Cranston was 
     the Senate sponsor of legislation creating the Golden Gate 
     National Recreation Area, the Santa Monica Mountains National 
     Recreation Area, the Channel Islands National Park, a 48,000 
     acre addition to the Redwoods National Park, and the 
     inclusion of Mineral King into Sequoia National Park. He 
     sponsored 12 different wilderness bills which became law 
     between 1969 and 1982. He helped close Death Valley National 
     Monument to open pit mining and was an architect of the

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     Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
       He worked diligently throughout his Senate years for the 
     California Desert Protection Act, that called for setting 
     aside millions of acres of desert lands as wilderness and 
     park preserves, and creating better government conservation 
     efforts for a vast portion of the California desert 
     ecosystem. His efforts ultimately came to fruition when 
     Senator Dianne Feinstein, during the first Clinton term, was 
     able to enact into law the Cranston crusade for desert 
     preservation.
       Even this long list does not tell the complete story of 
     Senator Cranston's environmental record, which includes clear 
     air and clean water legislation, control of toxic wastes, 
     liability for oil spills, restoration of fish and wildlife 
     resources, and support for new technologies for cleaner 
     fuels. No other period in American history has seen so much 
     been accomplished for environmental protection as the last 
     three decades of the 20th Century, and Senator Cranston was 
     an essential but largely unheralded architect of these 
     policies.

                      Civil rights/Civil liberties

       In his first term as a Senator, Alan Cranston wrote the 
     amendment that extended to federal workers the civil rights 
     protections earlier mandated to private employers. He also 
     played a key strategic role in ending a filibuster which 
     threatened the extension of the Voting Rights Act. He 
     authored the first Senate bill to redress grievances of 
     Japanese-Americans interned in relocation camps during the 
     Second World War. Cranston co-authored landmark legislation 
     protecting the civil rights of institutionalized persons. He 
     was the first U.S. Senator to employ an openly-gay person on 
     his staff, and he fought official discrimination against 
     homosexuals in immigration laws and access to legal services.
       Aware from his days as a journalist of the importance of 
     protecting news sources, Senator Cranston fought the Nixon 
     Administration to preserve an unfettered and free press in 
     America. He successfully blocked legislation in 1975 that 
     would have created an Official Secrets Act threatening First 
     Amendment freedoms.

                              Health care

       Both on the Senate and Human Resources Subcommittee on 
     Health and Scientific Research, and as Chairman of the Senate 
     Veterans Affairs Committee, Senator Cranston worked to secure 
     for all individuals access to health services necessary for 
     the prevention and treatment of disease and injury and for 
     the promotion of physical and mental well-being.
       He authored the law, and extensions and refinements of it, 
     that provided for the development nationwide of comprehensive 
     medical services (EMS) systems and for the training of 
     emergency medical personnel. He steered the original 
     Emergency Medical Systems Act through Congress, then 
     persuaded a reluctant President Nixon to sign it into law. A 
     few years later, the Cranston measure was quite possibly 
     responsible for saving another President's life. It was at a 
     special trauma care unit at George Washington University 
     Medical Center in Washington, D.C., established in part by 
     the EMS law, where President Reagan's life was saved 
     following an assassination attempt in 1981.
       Senator Cranston also wrote laws that have made a broad 
     range of family planning services available to individuals 
     who cannot otherwise afford or gain ready access to them. He 
     authored legislation that improved services to families of 
     sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and encouraged expanded 
     research efforts. Legislation to support community efforts to 
     control venereal diseases and tuberculosis were shaped by 
     Senator Cranston. He authored several provisions of law 
     substantially increasing funding for AIDS research, 
     education, and public health activities.
       He wrote the law that expanded and coordinated federal 
     research in arthritis, and he helped create the National 
     Institute on Aging. Totally separate from his role as a 
     federal legislator, he helped establish the private, non-
     profit Alliance for Aging Research to spur research 
     scientists to find answers for the chronic disabling 
     conditions of aging, including Alzheimer's Disease.
       His commitment to healthy aging was also personal. A 
     lifelong physical fitness buff and accomplished runner, he 
     set a world record for his age group in 1969, running the 
     100-yard dash in 12.6 seconds. He broke his own record three 
     years later running in the University of Pennsylvania Relays 
     at age 59.

                  Rights for persons with disabilities

       When Alan Cranston came to the Senate, disabled persons had 
     virtually no legal protection against unjust discrimination 
     and there had been little progress toward removing physical 
     barriers that excluded them from public buildings and 
     facilities. He was acutely aware of these injustices due to 
     crippling disabilities suffered by members of his immediate 
     family. He often characterized people with disabilities as 
     ``the one civil rights constituency any of us can be thrust 
     into without a moment's warning.'' He led efforts to enact 
     legislation in 1973 for the first time outlawing 
     discrimination in federally-funded programs and requiring 
     that federally-funded buildings be made accessible to 
     disabled individuals, and promoting the employment and 
     advancement of persons with disabilities by the federal 
     government and federal contractors. The sloping sidewalk 
     curbs for wheelchairs on nearly every street in the nation 
     stem from Alan Cranston's early advocacy for disabled people.

                         Children and families

       Senator Cranston authored a rich body of legislative 
     reforms that humanized and vastly improved adoption 
     assistance, foster care, child custody and child care. He was 
     a leader in sponsoring child abuse and neglect prevention 
     laws and in investigating the abuse of children in 
     institutions.
       He was responsible for extending the original authorization 
     of the Head Start pre-school education program. He authored 
     successful bills extending Medicaid coverage for prenatal 
     health care for low-income pregnant women. He co-wrote the 
     landmark L975 law designed to provide educational 
     opportunities for handicapped children, and he was a strong 
     supporter and developer of children's nutrition and feeding 
     programs throughout his time in the Senate.
       Many private organizations honored Cranston for his work, 
     including the North American Conference on Adoptable 
     Children, which named him ``Child Advocate of the Year'' in 
     1979, the California Adoption Advocacy Network, the Child 
     Welfare League of America, the Day Care and Child Development 
     Council of America, the California Child Development 
     Administrators Association, and the JACKIE organization, 
     which cited ``his leadership in obtaining national adoption 
     and foster care reform.''

                                Veterans

       Though opposed to the Vietnam War, he was deeply 
     compassionate toward those who fought America's most 
     unpopular war. Able to separate the war from the warriors, he 
     was an early champion for the Vietnam veterans, especially 
     for improving health care in VA hospitals and clinics.
       In his first year in the Senate, Alan Cranston was assigned 
     chairmanship of a Labor Committee subcommittee dealing with 
     veterans. He used that post to draw national attention to 
     inadequate and shocking conditions in VA hospitals, which 
     were overwhelmed by the returning wounded from the Vietnam 
     war. When a full Committee on Veterans Affairs was 
     established in the Senate, he chaired its subcommittee on 
     health and hospitals and later chaired the full committee for 
     a total of nine years.
       Among a few highlights of this record: improvements in 
     compensation for service-connected disabled veterans, 
     education and training programs tailored to Vietnam-era 
     veterans, requirements for federal contractors to give 
     preference in hiring for Vietnam-era and disabled veterans, 
     and a long list of initiatives to improve health care in the 
     VA medical system.
       Alan Cranston wrote the law that created a national network 
     of VA counseling facilities known as ``Vet Centers'' to aid 
     returning Vietnam veterans in coping with readjustment to 
     civilian society, and helping to identify and treat the 
     condition known as post-traumatic stress syndrome.
       He was among the first to draw attention to the health 
     problems believed associated with exposure to Agent Orange 
     and he gave the VA specific authority to provide Vietnam 
     veterans with medical care for those conditions. He also 
     helped bring to light health problems of veterans who were 
     exposed to nuclear radiation as part of U.S. government 
     atomic testing in the 1940s and 50s, and he fought to allow 
     compensation for subsequent medical effects of the exposure.
       For more than a decade he fought to allow veterans legal 
     rights to appeal VA decisions on claims for benefits and 
     ultimately succeeded in establishing the United States Court 
     of Veterans Appeals. His very last day in the Senate, Alan 
     Cranston was responsible for passage of three veterans bills: 
     Veterans Re-employment Rights, Veterans Health-Care Services, 
     and the Veterans Health Care Act.

                                 Women

       Another constant throughout the Cranston Senate career has 
     been his efforts aimed at eradicating sex discrimination and 
     providing equal opportunities for women.
       He worked hard, both in the U.S. Congress and in the 
     California legislature, for passage and ratification of the 
     Equal Rights Amendment. He authored provisions of the Equal 
     Employment Opportunity Act precluding discrimination in 
     hiring and retaining women employees and those who are 
     pregnant. On the Banking Committee he pioneered laws 
     prohibiting discrimination against women in obtaining credit 
     and benefitting from insurance policies.
       He consistently championed women's access to health care 
     and reproductive health services. He was the Senate author of 
     the Freedom of Choice Act to codify into federal law the Roe 
     v. Wade court decision.


                                Addenda

       Any summary of the Cranston record would be incomplete 
     without also noting the following:
       Senator Cranston helped lead the opposition in the U.S. 
     Senate to G. Harrold Carswell and Clement Haynsworth, both 
     nominated by President Richard Nixon to

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     the Supreme Court. Both nominations were defeated.
       When Robert Bork was nominated to the Court, it was a vote 
     count taken by Democratic Whip Alan Cranston that first 
     showed the nomination could be overturn. Senator Cranston 
     skillfully used this information to persuade swing vote 
     Senators to reject the Bork nomination.
       During the Carter Presidency, when Cranston had the 
     patronage power to recommend federal judicial appointments, 
     he instead established a bipartisan committee with the 
     California Bar Association to assist in screening candidates 
     based on merit. Under this system four women, four African-
     Americans, two Latinos and one Asian were appointed to the 
     U.S. District Court in California. In addition, one African-
     American, one woman, and one Latino were appointed as U.S. 
     Attorneys.
       He long championed federal support for mass transit, 
     including the Surface Transit Act, which for the first time 
     opened up the Federal Highway Act to allow mass transit to 
     compete for federal funds on an equal basis with highways.
       As Housing Subcommittee Chairman on the Banking Committee, 
     he lead efforts to pass the Urban Mass Transit Act of 1987, 
     the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, and the Housing and 
     Community Development Act of 1987 and then succeeded in 
     gaining enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
     Affordable Housing Act in October 1990, a landmark law that 
     set a new course for federal housing assistance, stressing 
     production of affordable housing units, improved FHA 
     insurance, elderly and handicapped housing expansion, special 
     housing for people with AIDS, and reform of public housing. 
     Passage of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 
     culminated Senator Cranston's 24 years of major legislative 
     achievements steadily aimed at making housing more available 
     and fostering community economic growth.
       He helped strengthen the Resources Conservation and 
     Recovery Act, the basic law which allows the federal 
     government to regulate hazardous waste material to insure 
     that it is safely managed.
       He headed efforts in the Senate to break the filibuster 
     mounted against Labor Law Reform.
       Over more than two decades, he provided diligent oversight 
     and direction for all federal volunteer programs, including 
     the Peace Corps, VISTA, the ACTION Agency, Foster 
     Grandparents, and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program.


                           Post-Senate Career

       From 1993 until his death just hours before the first day 
     of 2001, Alan Cranston pursued the opportunity afforded by 
     the end of the Cold War to abolish nuclear weapons. He worked 
     on the issue as Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation, and 
     then as President of the Global Security Institute in San 
     Francisco, which he helped establish. An important 
     accomplishment of the Institute was to put together, with a 
     coalition of groups called Project Abolition, the Responsible 
     Security Appeal, which calls for action leading to the 
     elimination of all nuclear weapons. At Cranston's urging, 
     this document was signed by such notable people as Paul 
     Nitze, General Charles Horner, and former President Jimmy 
     Carter. Project Abolition, founded by Cranston, promises to 
     be the foundation for a wider nuclear abolition campaign in 
     the years ahead.
       During the decade of the 1990s, he traveled to the Indian 
     Subcontinent, in Central Asia and elsewhere, working with 
     national leaders to accommodate peaceful change in the world, 
     especially the development of pluralistic, free societies in 
     the former Soviet Union. In the very last years of his life, 
     he was more often at home, in the sprawling Spanish Colonial 
     style residence in Los Altos Hills, where he was surrounded 
     by three generations of his family. He assembled a 
     magnificent library encompassing a wide range of California, 
     American and International history and politics, in thousands 
     of books, artworks, memorabilia and photographs. To this 
     library would come many friends, political allies old and 
     new, former staff and an occasional journalist intent on an 
     interview. Former Senator Cranston made this assessment of 
     his priorities in one interview, just months before his 
     death:
       ``I am an abolitionist on two fronts. I believe we have to 
     abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us, and I think 
     we have to eliminate the incredibly important and significant 
     role of money in politics before we're going to have our 
     democracy working as it should work. If we blow ourselves up 
     in a nuclear war, no other issue, no matter how important it 
     may seem to be, is going to matter. And until we get money 
     out of politics, money is going to affect every issue that 
     comes along, often adversely to the interest of the public. 
     So let's abolish both.''
       Years earlier, while preparing to retire from the United 
     States Senate, he expressed gratitude for the opportunities 
     to make a difference on behalf of California and people 
     throughout the world:
       ``It has been a privilege I have cherished and for which I 
     can never adequately thank the people of California. It is my 
     hope that many of the accomplishments achieved over these 
     past 24 years in the areas of world peace, the environment, 
     and in the effort to secure a better quality of life for 
     millions of Americans will survive and serve as the basis of 
     continued progress by others in behalf of future 
     generations.''
                                  ____


  February 6, 2001, 2:00 pm, Memorial Tribute to Alan Cranston, U.S. 
Senator 1969--1993, Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902, Washington, 
                                  D.C.

       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. On behalf of the sponsors, 
     Senators Cleland, Simpson, Rockefeller, Kennedy, Feinstein, 
     and Boxer, welcome to this Memorial Tribute to Senator Alan 
     Cranston. At the outset, I want to express our appreciation 
     to the U.S. Army Strings for their Prelude musical offerings 
     today. Also, thanks to C-Span for covering this event. This 
     turnout today is itself a wonderful testimonial to the work 
     of this man of the Senate, Alan Cranston, and we are 
     absolutely delighted that his family has journeyed here from 
     California to share in this Tribute--his son, Kim, and 
     daughter-in-law Colette, and their child and Alan's 
     granddaughter, Evan, who graces the program cover with Alan, 
     and we are so happy that Alan's wonderful, 91-year-old 
     sister, R.E., who wrote a biography about Alan, is with us as 
     well.
       During his 24 years as a Senator, Alan Cranston did much to 
     better the lives of the people of his state and the people of 
     this country and all countries. You will hear much about 
     those efforts and achievements today. In my role, I am a 
     proxy for the scores of staff who worked for Alan Cranston 
     over his Senate career. I began in March 1969, almost at the 
     beginning, and stayed 21 and a half years. I've always 
     thought that one could tell a great deal about the kind of 
     person someone was by how those who worked most closely with 
     him felt about him. I think it speaks volumes about Alan 
     Cranston--and Alan is the way he asked his staff always to 
     refer to him--that so many worked with him for so long. In 
     fact, five worked for him for his full 24 years; two others 
     worked more than 20 years; five others for 15 years or more, 
     and three or four for 10 or more years. I doubt that any 
     Senator has surpassed that record for staff loyalty and staff 
     satisfaction.
       Alan was wonderful to work for and with. He was not a 
     saint, of course, but he was a gentlemen, through and 
     through. He gave respect to get respect. To me he was a 
     mentor, a teacher, an inspiration, and a friend. I loved him. 
     I will always remember him. And when I do, I will think back 
     to our last meeting--at dinner on November 13. He was strong 
     and vibrant and full of passionate commitment to the cause of 
     the elimination of nuclear weapons. I remember our hugging 
     goodbye. It was a great hug, but I wish I had held on a 
     littler longer.
       A few announcements before we get to our speakers: First of 
     all, I want to remind each of you to please sign one of the 
     guest books in the lobby before you leave. I hope you've each 
     gotten a program. If not, you can pick one up on the way out. 
     And also on the way out, there is a paper on Senator 
     Cranston's legislative legacy in the Senate.
       Before I introduce our first speaker, I want to note the 
     presence here--now or expected--in addition to those who will 
     speak, of many distinguished members of the Senate and House: 
     Senator Rockefeller, who is one of our sponsors; Senator 
     Lugar, Senator Leahy, Senator Dodd, Senator Bingaman, Senator 
     Sarbanes, Senator Dorgan, former Senator DeConcini, and 
     Representatives Waxman, Filner, Roybal, Capps, and Harmon. 
     Also with us is former Senator Harris Wofford, who spoke so 
     eloquently at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on January 
     16, and Mark Schneider, former Director of the Peace Corps, 
     which Harris Wofford was instrumental in starting, in which 
     Senator Dodd served as a volunteer in Central America, and in 
     which Alan Cranston believed so deeply. We are also honored 
     to have the presence of three Cabinet members, all from 
     California--Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, 
     Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, and Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs Tony Principi.
       Our first speaker has timed it impeccably. (Laughter.) Our 
     first speaker is, fittingly, the lead sponsor of today's 
     tribute. Simply put, Alan Cranston loved Max Cleland--as do 
     I. They first met in 1969, and I'm sure Senator Cleland will 
     talk about that. Alan was truly overjoyed at Max's election 
     to the Senate in 1996. I want to express my gratitude to Max 
     personally and to his staff, Bill Johnstone, Farrar Johnston, 
     and Andy VanLandingham, for all of their help with the 
     arrangements for this event.
       And now our first speaker, Senator Max Cleland of Georgia. 
     (Applause.)
       Senator Max Cleland. Thank you all very much and thank you 
     Jon Steinberg for being uncharacteristically brief. 
     (Laughter.)
       I see so many of my colleagues here. Really my first real 
     exposure to the United States Senate came about because Alan 
     Cranston cared. He was an unusual individual. I visited the 
     Dirksen Building here for the first time in December of 1969. 
     I was still basically a patient in the VA hospital system 
     when I was asked to appear before something called the Senate 
     Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs about how the VA was 
     handling returning Vietnam war veterans.

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     That meeting was chaired by a tall, lean freshman California 
     senator named Alan Cranston. I really didn't know him then, 
     but it became the start of a three-decade friendship.
       In 1974, I ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 
     Georgia, and, other than my own priority for my own race, my 
     second priority in the whole world in terms of politics was 
     to make sure Alan Cranston got reelected in 1974. Actually, 
     Alan was very kind to me, and brought me out to California, 
     and I got a chance to campaign for him and kind of clear out 
     some of the cobwebs that I had in my own mind about politics 
     and about life. We campaigned together and I found him just 
     as inspiring and invigorating in that campaign as when I had 
     met him in '69.
       It's amazing how life works. Little did I know that, as 
     someone from Georgia, someone from California would be 
     critical in my continued service in public life. I did lose 
     my race for lieutenant governor in 1974 and, therefore, was 
     unemployed. Christmas Eve, 1974, I called my friend Jonathan 
     Steinberg, and said ``I just wanted to wish you the happiest 
     of holidays'' and said ``by the way, if you're looking for 
     anybody who wants to work, I'm available.'' He said, ``are 
     you serious?'' And I said ``I am deadly serious.'' Well, it 
     was Alan Cranston that made it possible for me to get a 
     $12,500-a-year job on the staff of the Senate Veterans' 
     Affairs Committee in the spring of 1975. That was more money 
     than I'd ever made in my whole entire life.
       I was there a couple of years and, in the summer of 1976, 
     when a young man from Georgia named Jimmy Carter seemed like 
     he was destined to win the Democratic primary, Alan Cranston 
     talked to me and said ``I think you ought to be the new head 
     of the Veterans' Administration.'' That scared me to death. I 
     said, ``well, if you really think I can do it, let's go for 
     it.'' He talked to Senator Nunn and talked to Senator 
     Talmadge. By the August convention of the American Legion, a 
     convention in Seattle, Senator Cranston pulled Jimmy Carter 
     aside and said ``I have two requests.'' I don't know what the 
     other one was, but he said ``the second one is to make Max 
     Cleland head of the VA.'' And Jimmy Carter replied, ``I love 
     Max Cleland.''
       So President Carter wound up in January 1977 as President 
     of the United States, and Alan Cranston wound up as Chairman 
     of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, and I only had two 
     friends in Washington; one was President, and the other was 
     Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. (Laughter.) So I 
     was nominated in March of 1977, as the youngest head of the 
     Veterans' Administration, and, thanks to Alan Cranston, I was 
     confirmed in record time, and took over that agency, with 
     really the support of Jon Steinberg and Alan. They were my 
     constant guides, and sometimes spurs, and encouraged me all 
     the way.
       One of the things I'm proudest of that we were able to do, 
     is put together something called the Vet Center Program. Alan 
     Cranston, since 1971, had been introducing in the Senate 
     something called psychological readjustment counseling for 
     Vietnam veterans and their families. It would usually pass 
     the Senate, die in the House, and had no Presidential 
     support; but I was able to talk to President Carter, we were 
     able to put the administration behind this legislation. It 
     passed, and we were able to sign it into law, and I put 
     together one of the very first Vet Centers in 1980 in Van 
     Nuys, California. Now, there are some 200 scattered around 
     the country. Some three-and-a-half million veterans and their 
     families have received counseling through this program, and 
     Alan Cranston was basically responsible.
       Let me just say that, in 1973, he helped to pass 
     legislation that helped the disabled in this country, that 
     required that federally-funded buildings be made accessible, 
     that promoted the hiring and advancement of people with 
     disabilities by the Federal government. He established 
     something called the Architectural and Transportation 
     Barriers Compliance Board, which has the responsibility for 
     setting standards for accessibility and for assisting and 
     forcing compliance with accessibility laws. I was named to 
     that Board by President Carter in 1979.
       Throughout the remainder of the 70s, Alan worked to revamp 
     federally-assisted state voc-rehab programs, sponsoring laws 
     that gave priority to the most seriously disabled. In 1980, 
     he sponsored legislation to make some improvements in that 
     program at the VA, and in 1990 he was a leading cosponsor of 
     the Americans with Disabilities Act, which has been a pioneer 
     piece of legislation, as we all know.
       I just want you to know that I wouldn't be in the United 
     States Senate, I wouldn't have ever been head of the 
     Veterans' Administration, without the mild-mannered 
     distinguished gentleman from the great state of California. I 
     mourn his passing, and we will miss him. God bless you. 
     (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Thank you very much, Max. 
     Speaking of the ADA, I see Senator Harkin here. We welcome 
     you.
       Alan referred to our next speaker as his best friend on the 
     Republican side. They served together as their respective 
     party leaders on the Veterans' Affairs Committee and as 
     Assistant Floor Leaders, or Whips, as they were also called. 
     Another tall, lanky, hairline-challenged Alan, former Senator 
     Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming.
       Senator Alan K. Simpson. Jonathan and former colleagues and 
     friends and family, Kim, Colette, Evan, and Eleanor, and 
     Cabinet members, including one Norm Mineta, who I met at the 
     age of 12 in the war relocation center at Hart Mountain. He 
     was behind wire, I wasn't, and I should have been and he 
     shouldn't have. (Laughter.) But, anyway, it's a long, 
     wonderful friendship, with a guy I love, and I'm so damn 
     proud of you, pal, even when you did that when you were in 
     Boy Scouts, I'll never forget. (Laughter.)
       Well, it's a great honor and privilege to honor my old 
     friend. To be asked is very, very moving to me, and I want to 
     share just a few memories and thoughts about a very special 
     friend. I came to the Senate in '79. Al was Chairman of the 
     Veterans' Affairs Committee, and that's when I first met Max. 
     I said, ``Max, you have a wonderful job there, Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs; veterans never pick on each other--ha, ha, 
     ha.'' Well, anyway, it was an interesting time, Max, wasn't 
     it? Well, enough of that. Butch is here and he would correct 
     anything that I said. But it fell to my pleasant luck to soon 
     become the ranking member in 1980, the Reagan Administration. 
     Well, I knew who Al was, I knew of his journalistic prowess, 
     of his warning to his countrymen about Adolf Hitler, and the 
     two versions of ``Mein Kampf'', one for domestic consumption 
     and one for the naive and the unwary, and Alan was sending 
     out the alert. I knew of his athletic achievements and his 
     stamina, and I very soon learned of his powerful loyalty to 
     America's veterans.
       He was so cordial to me, and his staff, so very helpful to 
     this new, pea-green freshman. And what a staff it was: Jon 
     Steinberg, Ed Scott, Bill Brew, Babette Polzer. Well, I 
     sought their counsel, and plumbed their expertise. Al would 
     occasionally check up on me, ``how are you? Can we be of more 
     help?'' I said, ``I need a lot more help.'' But then I built 
     my own staff. And, oh, to all of you who will be deprived of 
     staff one day. Staff deprivation is a serious issue 
     (laughter); it is the most shocking of the transitions 
     (laughter), and my wife, a beautiful woman of 46 years, she 
     said ``Alan, your staff is gone, you have no staff, they are 
     not here, and I am not one of your staff.'' (Laughter.) But, 
     there was Biblical precedent for this, you look it up in the 
     Good Book, it says, ``Jacob died leaning on his staff''. 
     (Laughter.) Now, so along came Ken Bergquist and one Tony 
     Principi, in those early years. Tony seems to have moved 
     along nicely in life, a wonderful human being with rare 
     gifts, who has been bestowed again on the veterans and the 
     people of this country. He will be serving very wisely and 
     very well as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and I'm damn 
     proud of you, too, pal.
       Tom Harvey then came on. But Tony and Jon Steinberg became 
     a very dynamic duo, they worked with Tom Harvey in those 
     early years. And, as I say then, in '80, I became in the 
     majority, and the first call I received after the election 
     was from Al Cranston. Of course, who else? In that cheery 
     voice, he said ``congratulations, Mr. Chairman.'' Well, I 
     thought, the power, I felt the surge . . . (laughter) . . . 
     and I thought how like him to do that. Well, we cranked out 
     some good legislation together. With Sonny here, another dear 
     friend on the other side of the aisle, and John Paul 
     Hammerschmidt, then Bob Stump, those were men of my faith, my 
     political faith. And Sonny used to sit next to me and say: 
     ``Don't do it pal. I know what you're going to do. Just shut 
     up, won't you?'' (Laughter.) I know we're not going to let 
     that get away now, Sonny.
       Anyway, the changing of the guard went well. The only hitch 
     was that all of the veterans organizations had selected 
     National Commanders and Officers from California. Well, you 
     know how that goes. And now their guy was gone, and the 
     cowboy from Wyoming was in the saddle. Well that was very 
     much fun to watch, I loved it. It was painful for Jonathan, 
     but I loved it. And we were able to, when I took over, we 
     were able to get Steinberg's statutory language down to one 
     paragraph in one page. We never let him go two pages with one 
     paragraph. And he had a tendency to do that.
       Then, in 1984, I was honored to become the Assistant 
     Majority Leader, and who was the Assistant Minority Leader? 
     Al Cranston. We worked closely together. We enjoyed each 
     other, we trusted each other. We gave good support and 
     counsel to Bob Dole and George Mitchell, and we thought it 
     was a silly idea, but that we oughta make things work. And 
     even when Al was running for President, imagine me, being the 
     ranking member of a committee with Kennedy and Hart and 
     Cranston, all three of them running for President. I went to 
     them and I said ``you cannot use these chores of mine for 
     your great cycle, and I won't ever use the committee to 
     embarrass you'' That's the kind of friendship I had with Ted, 
     with Al, with Gary, it was very special, and it can be that 
     way again. I urge it upon you all. Anyway, he ran for 
     President, he gave it his all, as he did in every phase of 
     his life, but the brass ring eluded, eluded his grip, and he 
     came back to his Senate home, his pride intact. The only time 
     I really, really flustered him, I was flush with power. Now a 
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     my bosom like a hot Gospel. I ambled over to his offices, his 
     spacious offices, great view, two fireplaces, couches, cozy 
     chairs, comfort, oh, and I said ``Al, yes I think this will 
     do very nicely [(laughter)] for my new Whip office.'' And the 
     blood drained from his face. And I said: ``No, no, just 
     kidding, Al. You represent millions, I represent thousands. 
     But when the wind shifts around here, and you Dems have the 
     horses, don't let `em come around my office with a tape 
     measure and some greedy looking guy with a clipboard.'' And 
     he said, ``it's a deal.'' And we had a handshake. Then the 
     time came, and no one ever darkened my door, no unworthies 
     with tape measures ever came to see me.
       So, we legislated together, we argued, we collaborated, we 
     joshed and laughed with each other, we took pleasure in 
     confusing people. Same first name, same hairstyle; ``hairing 
     impaired'' is what we called it in political correctness. 
     Same gaunt, emaciated frame. Same gait, same grin. And, 
     people would come up to me and say, ``I just think the world 
     of you and you ran for President, and your views on the 
     environment and nuclear freeze thrill me to death.'' 
     (Laughter.) And I'd say, ``No, no; I'm Al Simpson,'' and 
     they'd say ``Not you!'' (Laughter.) And Al said he got that 
     in reverse about, you know, twice a month, too, so we would 
     compare that, and our constituents were often not in 
     alignment, you might imagine. But the best one, though, and 
     then I'm going to stop: Cheney, Gulf War, Secretary of 
     Defense, he called and he said, ``we're going over to a game 
     in Baltimore; bring Ann'', and we went over to the game, and 
     53,000 Oriole fans, ``Hey Cheney, we love ya! Great stuff!'' 
     You know, I said ``Boy, this is getting bad in here.'' We 
     left in the seventh inning and went back down through the 
     bowels, where all the guys, the beer drinkers and the cigar 
     smokers, were, and they went ``Hey, Cheney, baby, you're all 
     right--we love ya!'' And I turned to him and I said, ``You 
     know, they never treated you like this in Casper.'' And a guy 
     from the audience said ``Hey, I know the big guy, too; that's 
     Al Cranston!'' (Laughter.) So, I can assure you he loved that 
     story (laughter), when I told him that.
       Well, he handled life well. Stuck to his guns, worked 
     through pain, met life full in the face, as if in a track 
     meet, headed for the tape, and he loved that thrill. Many 
     would have buckled; not Al. The pain of loss of the 
     Presidency, the pain of loss of family members, the pain of 
     loss of Norma to Parkinson's Disease that withered her, that 
     withered their union. The pain of cancer, the pain of 
     accusation and assault by the media, the pain from his peers 
     at that time; we talked about that, oh yes we did, of that 
     sense of being singled out, very painful.
       And he left the Senate and went on to vital other things, 
     and meaningful things in his life, undaunted, head high, 
     smile on his face, fire in the belly, finishing the course 
     laid out. And we knew on one unknown day he would be taken 
     from us. And we shall miss him. But not mourn him. For he was 
     a man of vigor and joy and vision. And my life is much richer 
     for having shared a significant piece of it with Alan 
     Cranston. A race well run, my old friend. God rest his soul. 
     (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Senator Simpson, we greatly 
     appreciate your having rearranged your schedule to come down 
     here from New York and we know you have to leave to go back 
     there.
       We're going to show a very short film now, it's only two or 
     three minutes, but we thought we ought to have Alan with us.

                                  Film

       Narrator. Moscow, Winter, 1998.
       Voice. Alan, you don't wear a coat in the Russian winter?
       Alan Cranston. I don't believe in them.
       Voice. He doesn't believe in them. It's like John Kennedy, 
     it's . . .
       Narrator. That was Alan in retirement. For most people, a 
     time to slow down. But at 84, as he approached the Russian 
     Duma, Alan Cranston was a man on a lifelong mission.
       Alan Cranston. I got into all this way back shortly after 
     Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I met Albert Einstein. He told me, as 
     he told others, that the whole human race could be wiped out 
     by nuclear weapons. I've been working on it ever since.
       Narrator. And forty years later, after trillions had been 
     spent on weapons of mass destruction, Alan emerged with a 
     collection of allies that astonished even him.
       Alan Cranston. One very dramatic moment, when Lee Butler, 
     who had command of all of our nuclear weapons, gave his first 
     public address at the State of the World Forum, in San 
     Francisco, revealing the concerns he had developed about the 
     whole deterrence policy and the ongoing dangers from reliance 
     on nuclear weapons. And, as he spoke, presiding right next to 
     him was Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the country that we 
     would have destroyed. At the very end of this remarkable 
     speech, Gorbachev and Butler stood up and embraced each 
     other. That was a very dramatic moment.
       Two weeks ago, General Butler and I made public a statement 
     by 48 past and present heads of state and some 75 other 
     national leaders from 48 nations, advocating specific steps 
     towards abolition. Despite these and other favorable 
     developments, there is significant doubt, skepticism, 
     cynicism, and outright opposition to much of this. So, 
     plainly, there is much to do, and we have a lot of hard 
     thinking to do about what is in order. But let me say in 
     closing that I do not believe that we need to wait, and I do 
     not believe that we can afford to wait, until the end of the 
     next century, to fulfill the obligation of our generation to 
     all generations that preceded us and all generations that 
     hopefully will follow us, to deal with the threat to all life 
     that exists and is implicit in nuclear weapons. Thank you.
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. That film that was pulled 
     together from a larger documentary by George Crile, a former 
     CBS producer, who has developed documentaries on nuclear arms 
     for ``60 Minutes'' and CNN. We are indebted to him and the 
     Global Security Institute, of which Alan Cranston was 
     President, for making that film available to us.
       And now we will go a little bit out of order, and hear from 
     one of this event's sponsors, the Senior Senator from 
     California, whose work with Alan Cranston goes back many, 
     many years and who, among many other achievements, carried on 
     successfully with some very important environmental 
     initiatives that Senator Cranston began.
       Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. (Applause.)
       Senator Dianne Feinstein. Thank you very much. Thank you. 
     It's really a great honor and a privilege to be here. I just 
     want to recognize two members of the California House 
     delegation that came in. First is Lois Capps, from the Santa 
     Barbara area, and Jane Harmon, from the southern Los Angeles 
     area. And I'm not sure whether Paul Wellstone and Jeff 
     Bingaman were introduced earlier, but I want everybody to 
     know that they're here, too.
       Alan Simpson is a hard act to follow, there's no question 
     about that. I look at life this way: That we're here but for 
     an instant in an eternity. No one really knows when that 
     instant is over, and the only thing that really matters is 
     what we do with that instant. Because, when it's over, 
     there's nothing we can take with us other than the legacy, 
     leave behind. Alan Cranston first came into my life in 1962, 
     and that's when I first met his sister, R.E., and it was in 
     his campaign for State Controller; believe it or not, it was 
     the first campaign for which I ever volunteered, and so I've 
     always kind of taken a special interest in a lot of his 
     achievements. From that point on, I found this former long 
     distance runner really to be a tireless workhorse for all 
     Californians, and, as a matter of fact, for all Americans. 
     This was a man who really loved the intricacies of the 
     legislative process. He was the consummate vote counter. He 
     possessed the uncanny ability to assess competing camps, to 
     quickly find where votes would fall and determine whether the 
     best course of action was to fight or compromise. 
     Unfortunately, neither my friend Barbara Boxer nor I really 
     had an opportunity to work with him in his nearly quarter of 
     a century here in the Senate, but I think these traits are 
     legendary, I think they're known by all.
       Alan Cranston yielded a whole array of wonderful 
     accomplishments, but I want to just concentrate today on a 
     few things in the environment. And, in the true sprit of the 
     legendary Californian conservationist John Muir, Alan 
     Cranston became a very passionate architect of measures to 
     preserve our God-given natural treasures. Alan Cranston was 
     the original author of something called the Desert Protection 
     Act. Shortly after I won in 1993, and knew I was coming to 
     Washington, the phone rang, and Alan said, ``Would you be 
     willing to take over the effort to pass a Desert Protection 
     Act?'' And I said, ``Of course.'' And we came back and we 
     revised the language, rewrote the bill somewhat, changed some 
     of the concepts, and moved it ahead. But, the basic 
     originator of this, let there be no doubt, was Alan Cranston. 
     The bill was filibustered, but we were lucky in the Senate, 
     we got it through, and it became a reality in 1994. And the 
     legislation created the largest park and wilderness 
     designation in our nation. Over six million acres, two new 
     National Parks, Death Valley and Joshua Tree, and one 
     National Preserve, the East Mojave. And so because of that, 
     we have actually protected, well I said six, but it's 
     actually closer to seven million acres of pristine California 
     desert wilderness for all time. Thank you, Alan Cranston.
       He was also the lead sponsor of legislation which 
     established the Golden Gate and the Santa Monica National 
     Recreation Area, the Channel Islands National Park, a 48,000 
     acre addition to the Redwoods National Park, and the 
     inclusion of Mineral King into the Sequoia National Park. He 
     also sponsored twelve different wilderness bills that became 
     law between 1969 and 1982. He helped close Death Valley 
     National Monument to open-pit mining. He helped craft the 
     Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and 
     with just two bills, on which he teamed with the late and 
     wondrous Phillip Burton of San Francisco, the Omnibus Parks 
     Act of 1978, and the Alaska Lands Act of 1980, as much 
     acreage was placed under federal protection as all the park 
     lands created earlier in the twentieth century combined.
       So, I can truthfully say, without his service, America 
     would have been a different, and certainly a poorer place, in 
     terms of our environment and the quality of life for many of 
     our citizens. Alan Cranston leaves a legacy of preservation 
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     and enjoyed and certainly by his beautiful seven-year 
     granddaughter Evan, who is here today. And I think, for my 
     granddaughter, for Barbara's grandson, and for all of us, who 
     really look at this land and want to do what we can to 
     protect it.
       This was a very special Californian. And life wasn't always 
     easy for Alan, either. But I think his ability to keep his 
     eye on the goal, to establish what he established, whether it 
     was from the translation of Mein Kampf, to his work against 
     nuclear devastation, to his environmental record, Alan 
     Cranston truly lived that instant in eternity, and he has 
     truly left us a good legacy. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. I'm sure there are others that I 
     failed to mention. I thank Senator Feinstein. I know that 
     Senator Reid is also here, and again I apologize if I missed 
     anyone.
       No Senator has worked on more causes closer to Alan 
     Cranston's heart and soul than has Senator Edward M. Kennedy. 
     I am particularly grateful to him, because it was through his 
     chief counsel, Jim Flug, who is also here today, that I was 
     introduced to and came to work for Alan in 1969. Senator 
     Cranston and Senator Kennedy served together for 12 years on 
     the Labor and Human Resources Committee, which Senator 
     Kennedy chaired from 1987 to 1995 and again for 17 days this 
     year.
       Our next speaker, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. 
     (Applause.)
       Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Thank you, Jonathan. To Kim, and 
     Colette, and Evan, and R.E.--let me begin by saying that I 
     loved Alan Cranston too. I will never forget the 24 years of 
     friendship and leadership and achievement with which he 
     graced the Senate and the nation. And so it's a special 
     privilege and honor for me to be part of this tribute today. 
     Alan is profoundly missed by his family and friends, his 
     colleagues in the Congress, and by all those around the world 
     who pursue the great goals of hope and progress and peace.
       I must say--I grew up thinking Cranston was a city in Rhode 
     Island. But Alan taught each of us that Cranston stands for 
     something else as well--the very best in public service.
       Alan loved to lead behind the scenes--for 14 of those 24 
     Senate years with us, he was our Democratic whip, and he 
     wrote the book about the job. In those great years, we used 
     to tease Alan about the position, because so few people 
     outside Congress knew what it involved. Since Alan was from 
     California, a lot of people thought the Minority Whip was the 
     name of a Leather Bar in Malibu. (Laughter.)
       But seriously, Alan was a giant of his day on many issues, 
     and his concern for social justice made him a leader on them 
     all. We served together for many years on the Labor Committee 
     and especially the Health Subcommittee, and his insights were 
     indispensable. I always felt that if we'd had another Alan 
     Cranston or two in those years, we'd have actually passed our 
     Health Security Act, and made health care the basic right for 
     all that it ought to be, instead of just an expensive 
     privilege for the few.
       Perhaps the greatest legacy that Alan left us was his able 
     and tireless work for democracy and world peace. Every 
     village in the world is closer to that goal today because of 
     Alan. No one in the Senate fought harder or more effectively 
     for our nuclear weapons freeze in the 1980's, or for nuclear 
     arms control. His hope for a nuclear-free future still 
     represents the highest aspiration of millions--even 
     billions--throughout the world.
       I also recall Alan's pioneering efforts to press for Senate 
     action to end the war in Vietnam, and his equally able 
     leadership for civil rights at home and human rights around 
     the world. We know how deeply he felt about injustice to 
     anyone anywhere. And his leadership in the battle against 
     apartheid in South Africa was indispensable.
       Throughout his brilliant career, the causes of civil rights 
     and human rights were central to Alan's being and his 
     mission--and America and the world are better off today 
     because Alan Cranston passed this way.
       A key part of all his achievements was his unique ability 
     to translate his ideals into practical legislation. Few if 
     any Senators have been as skilled as Alan in the art of 
     constructive legislative compromise that fairly leads to 
     progress for the nation.
       He was a vigorous supporter of the Peace Corps, a strong 
     overseer of its performance, and a brilliant advocate for all 
     the Peace Corps Volunteers. He was a champion for health 
     coverage for returning Volunteers, and one of the first to 
     understand that good health coverage had to include mental 
     health services as well.
       In many ways, his first love was the Peace Corps, and I 
     know that President Kennedy would have been very proud of 
     him. Even before he came to the Senate, he had his first 
     contact with the Corps, as a consultant to Sargent Shriver. 
     As Alan often said, he became involved because he was so 
     inspired by my brother's vision of a world where Americans of 
     all ages could work side-by-side with peoples throughout the 
     world to put an end to poverty.
       Because of Alan, the Peace Corps today is thriving as never 
     before--free of the partisan tensions that divide us on other 
     issues--spreading international understanding of Alan's and 
     America's best ideals--educating new generations of young 
     Americans about our common heritage as travelers on spaceship 
     earth--teaching us about the beauty, the richness, and the 
     diversity of other peoples, other languages, other cultures 
     and about the enduring importance of the greatest pursuit of 
     all--the pursuit of peace.
       Near the end of John Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's Progress,'' there 
     is a passage that tells of the death of Valiant:
       ``Then, he said, I am going to my Father's. And though with 
     great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not regret me 
     of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My 
     sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, 
     and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and 
     scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have 
     fought his battle who now will be my rewarder.
       ``When the day that he must go hence was come, many 
     accompanied him to the riverside, into which as he went, he 
     said, `Death, where is thy sting?' and as he went down 
     deeper, he said, `Grave, where is thy victory?' So he passed 
     over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other 
     side.''
       We loved you, Alan. We miss you. And we always will. 
     (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Thank you, Senator.
       Our next speaker was elected to the Senate seat that Alan 
     occupied when he retired in 1993. She and Senator Cranston 
     collaborated on many matters while she served in the House of 
     Representatives, and she authored with Senator Feinstein a 
     lovely resolution of tribute to Senator Cranston that was 
     adopted by the Senate on January 22. On behalf of Alan's 
     family and his extended family and all his friends, we 
     express our gratitude for this most gracious action.
       Senator Barbara Boxer of California. (Applause.)
       Senator Barbara Boxer. Thank you. To Alan's family, 
     beautiful family, and to my dear colleagues who are here, it 
     certainly has been my honor for the past eight years to serve 
     in the seat that was held by Alan Cranston for 24 years.
       Alan was a deeply caring human being and he cared even for 
     those whose distant cries were not always heard in 
     Washington.
       From civil rights to arms control, from cleaning up the 
     environment to improving the lives of our nation's veterans--
     Alan's work knew no geographic boundaries. But, sometimes 
     Alan's legacy on women's rights gets overlooked and that is 
     what I'm going to speak about today.
       From his earliest days in the Senate, Alan made improving 
     the lives of women a priority. In 1969, he supported the 
     Equal Rights Amendment. Remember the ERA. It failed. But, in 
     1972 he became a proud cosponsor again of the ERA, and it 
     passed. But he didn't stop there--he wrote letters and he got 
     on the phone to California legislators considering the 
     measure, urging their support, and his work paid off and 
     California ratified it that same year. Unfortunately, not all 
     the states followed suit. But Alan did not stop his advocacy. 
     He continued over the next decade to push for the Amendment's 
     ratification and when time ran out, he cosponsored another 
     ERA in 1983 and another one in 1985, even before he knew he 
     was going to have a granddaughter. Alan would not give up.
       He worked to eliminate gender discrimination in the 
     workplace. He was the principal author of the Equal 
     Employment Opportunity Act Amendments of 1972, which extended 
     protections against gender discrimination to federal 
     employees in the workplace. And he was the very first member 
     of Congress to introduce legislation aimed at eliminating 
     wage discrimination in the federal workplace.
       Alan understood the challenges faced by working mothers. He 
     worked to provide child care for this nation's working 
     families, introducing some of the first ever legislation to 
     provide care both before and after school. He knew that many 
     kids were without adult supervision, and I was so proud when 
     under the Clinton Administration, we saw after-school funding 
     increase from $1 million in 1997 to $845 million in 2001. 
     Alan, you laid the ground work for that.
       He also worked tirelessly to protect a woman's right to 
     choose, authoring the Freedom of Choice Act to codify Roe v. 
     Wade. I proudly carry that bill now. He pushed for increased 
     access to family planning services for low-income women and 
     teenagers, and fought to provide medical care to low-income 
     pregnant women, who otherwise would have been left without it 
     and would not have had healthy babies.
       And he didn't stop there. He sought to level the financial 
     playing field for women, pushing for laws prohibiting 
     discrimination against women trying to obtain credit. And we 
     forget today when we open our mailboxes and we keep getting 
     all these applications for credit cards, there was a time 
     when a woman could not get any credit. We thank you, Alan, 
     although we have to restrain ourselves now and then. We 
     appreciate the work you did.
       Alan was responsible for the first appointment of a woman 
     to the federal court bench in California. I've personally, 
     and I know Dianne, we've recommended many women; five of 
     those that I recommended to President Clinton were nominated 
     and confirmed. Alan laid that ground work too.

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       An advocate for equal education for young women, he fought 
     hard for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and 
     you know what that is, equal opportunity for our children, 
     for our girls in athletics.
       And the list goes on and I will stop there with it, because 
     it could go on and on. But I stand before you today, as a 
     Senator who is carrying on the progressive work of Alan 
     Cranston. His belief that women are equal has borne fruit.
       If you look around today in the Senate, there are 13 women 
     Senators from both parties. That's just in this building. 
     Next door--and we have a couple here--there are 61 women in 
     the House. We are doing better now, but as my friend Barbara 
     Mikulski often says, it takes the ``Sir Galahads,'' to get us 
     there, and Alan was definitely a Sir Galahad.
       I'm just going to tell you one quick personal story, and 
     then I'll end. Alan decided to retire, I ran for the seat and 
     won the seat, and about a year later, he made an appointment 
     to come to see me. Now, I know this, the family must know 
     this, but unlike the Whip's office, which someone else must 
     have decorated, Alan's personal office here in the Hart 
     building was not the most beautiful place, because this was 
     not important to Alan. It was dark; it was dark leather and 
     dark walls and the blinds were drawn, and that was it. Alan 
     just saw it as a place to work--files all over the floor. So 
     when I got into the office, I said: ``Let's brighten it up. 
     Let's bring California.'' And I ordered all of these green 
     plants, and we opened up all the shades and we painted the 
     walls peach and we got peach and green fabrics, and I mean, 
     it was different. So I thought, you know, Alan was coming to 
     see me about arms control, but I was excited that he was 
     going to see what had happened to his office. And he came in 
     and he sat down, and he sat there and his first thing is, 
     ``You've got to be more aggressive on arms control.'' Now 
     that's the first time anyone ever told me to be more 
     aggressive on anything. (Laughter.) But he started to lecture 
     me and, you know, time went on, it was an hour, he still 
     hadn't said a thing about the room. So, finally, I got up my 
     courage, and I said, ``So Alan, what do you think of the 
     office?'' And he looked around, and he looked around, and he 
     said, ``You moved my desk.'' (Laughter.) That was it.
       Alan said about his role as Senator, and I quote him, when 
     he retired: ``It has been a privilege I have cherished and 
     for which I can never adequately thank the people of 
     California.'' Let me take this moment on behalf of the people 
     of California to say to Alan Cranston thank you and your work 
     lives on. (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Thank you very much, Senator 
     Boxer, and thank you for being with us so long. I couldn't 
     help but note when you talked about women and forging the way 
     for women, that the U.S. Army Strings that played at the 
     beginning of our ceremony today was composed of four women 
     from the U.S. Army. And no men.
       I want also to acknowledge the presence here of Senator 
     Daniel Akaka, of the Democratic Leader, Senator Tom Daschle, 
     and of Senator Hollings of South Carolina. We appreciate 
     their presence with us very much.
       Known to all veterans' advocates as ``Mr. Chairman'', our 
     next speaker was the counterpart in the House to Senator 
     Cranston and Senator Simpson as the Chairman of the Committee 
     on Veterans' Affairs in the other body, as it is 
     affectionately called. He and Alan had to resolve many sticky 
     and tricky issues over the 14 years that he led the House 
     Committee, and they were always able to do so with 
     congeniality and mutual respect.
       He has been a great friend to me personally, as has been 
     his Committee staff. I now introduce Former Representative 
     Sonny Montgomery of Mississippi, ``Mr. Chairman''. 
     (Applause.)
       Representative G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery. Thanks very much, 
     Jon.
       To the family of Senator Cranston, my colleagues on this 
     panel, cabinet members, other distinguished guests, ladies 
     and gentlemen.
       I'd like to thank you, Judge Steinberg and others for 
     letting me participate in the remarks of this Memorial 
     Tribute to Senator Alan Cranston.
       Alan and I became friends because he was Chairman of the 
     Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee and I was Chairman of the 
     House Veterans' Affairs Committee, and we both enjoyed 
     working for veterans and their families. Alan was a veteran 
     of World War II and had really a good feel for veterans 
     issues.
       You know, at first, I was a little uncomfortable working 
     with the great Senator from California. I am kinda the hand-
     shaking, pat-on-the-back congressman whereas Alan was in 
     great physical shape, and he would look down on me and say 
     ``I am sure we can work together'' and we did.
       He had a couple of veterans functions out in California and 
     asked me to come out.
       Going from one veterans meeting to another in different 
     towns in California, we stopped at this restaurant, and he 
     said they made the best vegetable soup in California. People 
     recognized him when he walked in, but Alan wanted the soup 
     and didn't work the crowd, so to speak.
       I said to Steinberg, ``explain to me'', and he did, in 
     California you had millions of people and you just don't work 
     the crowds. (Laughter.) So, I found out about that.
       Alan did many good things for veterans, and I will mention 
     a few.
       He was the architect of the Veterans Readjustment 
     Counseling Act that Max Cleland mentioned. There are 206 
     centers to help Vietnam veterans to readjust and Alan did 
     pass this legislation in 1979.
       He had a strong interest in veterans health care and he 
     passed legislation that gave thousands of veterans more 
     access to health care. He pushed for more outpatient clinics, 
     and more veterans use outpatient clinic facilities now and 
     the VA, I'm happy to say, has been able to cut back on the 
     number of hospital beds in our 172 hospitals, because of Alan 
     Cranston and our outpatient clinics.
       He was part of our team that established the U.S. Court of 
     Appeals for Veterans Claims and worked very hard for the 
     upgrade of the VA to a Cabinet department.
       Some member of Congress, and what a mistake he made, 
     introduced legislation to tax veterans disability 
     compensation. Senator Cranston went berserk, he killed this 
     tax legislation before it even saw the light of day, and he 
     was right.
       Alan was very helpful in establishing educational benefits 
     for veterans who completed their military obligation, and, he 
     saw to it that the educational benefits go to the actives as 
     well as the National Guard and Reserve.
       As big as California is and the many government programs 
     that the state has, I believe he really enjoyed working for 
     veterans and their families more than other issues in 
     government.
       He was a friend of the veteran and veterans organizations 
     knew they could count on Alan, and he came through for them.
       We all miss him and know even in Heaven Alan has an 
     exercise program going. (Laughter and applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Thank you very much, Mr. 
     Chairman.
       I want to note Senator Jeffords who has just joined us. We 
     appreciate your being here.
       Next, we will hear from a former colleague of Alan's who 
     knew him long before he became a United States Senator or 
     held any public office. He very graciously called last 
     Thursday to offer to say a few words in tribute to Alan. I 
     now introduce former Representative and Independent 
     Presidential candidate, John B. Anderson of Illinois. 
     (Applause.)
       Representative John B. Anderson. Thank you very much, Judge 
     Steinberg, and my distinguished former colleagues in both the 
     House and the Senate, distinguished members of the cabinet, 
     and Alan's family. I count it an honor indeed to be included 
     in the group that is privileged this afternoon to say just a 
     few words about the career of this very remarkable man. You 
     have already heard a great deal about his commitment to the 
     cause of civil rights, women's rights, conservation, the 
     environment, veterans' affairs. I will not attempt to repeat 
     the comments or the praise that could continue to be heaped 
     upon him for the efforts that he exerted in all of those 
     fields. But, as a member of the ``other body'' for 12 of the 
     24 years that Alan Cranston served in the Senate, I was well 
     aware of the distinguished record that he had compiled in 
     that body. And I would simply again state what has already 
     been remarked that earlier than most he saw the folly of our 
     entanglement in Southeast Asia, and I remember his very clear 
     and clairvoyant voice calling for an end to the struggle 
     there. He called for more than that, for an end to the arms 
     race.
       And it's really to that vision that he had in this 
     particular realm of international affairs that I wanted to 
     direct my very brief remarks this afternoon. Because, as a 
     very young man he was gifted with a passion for achieving 
     peace in our time that was shaped as someone said about a 
     former President, I forget who it was, he had a vision that 
     enabled him to peer around a corner of history, to see what 
     lay beyond. In short, he was, indeed, a globalist long before 
     globalization had become a term used in common parlance.
       And it was just two years after the founding of the United 
     World Federalists in Asheville, North Carolina, that young 
     Alan Cranston at the age of 35 became the President of that 
     organization and served until 1951. One of his mentors was 
     the late, distinguished Grenville Clark, who, along with 
     Lewis B. Sonn, wrote that very magisterial work on world 
     peace through world law. And that indeed was the vision that 
     Alan Cranston had. He had a vision of a democratic world 
     federation that would emerge from what was then, when he was 
     president of the United World Federalists, still a very 
     nascent United Nations. He maintained that interest and 
     served on the Board of Advisors of the World Federalists 
     Association until his recent death.
       Upon his retirement from the Senate in 1994, and this is 
     the point, I think, that I wanted the opportunity to 
     emphasize here this afternoon, he did not regard his career 
     as ended. I read the account of the marvelous memorial 
     service conducted in San Francisco just three weeks ago, in 
     Grace Cathedral, where his son was quoted as saying that he 
     had said that ``when the end comes, I

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     want to be able somehow to still struggle across the finish 
     line with my head up.'' And he added to that that when the 
     end came, he was still sprinting; he was not merely 
     struggling, he was sprinting in pursuit of the goals that he 
     sought. And he became a leading and a very strong voice in 
     civil society in the area that, at the end of his life, I am 
     convinced, lay closest to his heart. It was the interest in 
     disarmament, an end to the threat of nuclear war and the 
     achievement of world peace through world law. And he believed 
     that that could be achieved only through the application and 
     the use of the same federalist principles that had inspired 
     the Framers of our Constitution to write a Constitution that 
     would bring about peace and domestic tranquillity among the 
     then 13 independent sovereignties who had found that under 
     the Articles of Confederation their bonds of unity had become 
     frayed. And it was Alan's belief, building on that historical 
     fact, that only with a restructured and an empowered United 
     Nations, one capable of maintaining peace with justice, that 
     we would recognize the goal that he sought, of world peace 
     through world law.
       It's been mentioned, I think, already, that he served as 
     President of the Global Security Institute, a non-profit 
     organization dedicated to disarmament and world peace. He saw 
     security not simply as an issue confined within the narrow 
     boundaries of nationalism but as an issue that required the 
     forging of new bonds of global cooperation.
       And one of the last and most vivid memories that I 
     personally have of Alan Cranston was less than three years 
     ago, when the Hague Appeal for Peace drew thousands of peace 
     activists from around the world to the Hague, to celebrate, 
     to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the first 
     Hague peace conference. Alan was there as one of the leading 
     spokespersons from the United States. And again, one of the 
     memorable experiences of that international meeting was to 
     attend one of its sessions and to hear him describe how he 
     was even then busy working on a book, a book on sovereignty, 
     a book that would seek to explain that, in this new 
     millennium, the old Westphalian theory of state sovereignty 
     was simply not sufficient unto the needs of our present age, 
     and we had to reconceptualize that term in a way that would 
     allow the formation of democratic global institutions that 
     would carry out the goals of disarmament and build a world in 
     which peace could be achieved through reliance on the rule of 
     law.
       Those are the memories that I will certainly carry with me, 
     as inspiration for the remainder of my life, and I thank you, 
     Alan Cranston, for the things that you did, both in the 
     Senate, and then in those very important years when you 
     carried forth your ideas and lived for your ideals as a 
     strong member of American civil society. (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. I think that gave us all an 
     important glimpse of the formation of Alan Cranston's 
     philosophy and thinking and I know that there are a number of 
     people from those early days in the United World Federalists 
     who are here today, including Neil Potter and Ted Waller, who 
     worked with Alan so many years ago at the founding of that 
     organization.
       Our next speaker has served for 26 years in the House of 
     Representatives. He worked very closely with Alan on many 
     initiatives of significance to their California constituents 
     and particularly to the children of their state and the 
     children of the entire country. We are very grateful that he 
     has taken time to be with us throughout this entire ceremony 
     this afternoon.
       Representative George Miller of California. (Applause.)
       Representative George Miller. Well thank you, and to all of 
     you, to family and friends, and colleagues. I am very, very 
     pleased to be able to participate in this memorial to an 
     extraordinary life, to clearly one of the leading California 
     statesmen of the 20th century.
       My familiarity with Alan Cranston goes back long before my 
     politics, when as a young boy, I sat in the living room of 
     our home and listened to Alan Cranston and my father and many 
     other California politicians plot campaigns and create and 
     organize the California Democratic Council, which changed the 
     politics of California, changed the Democratic Party in 
     California, launched their careers, and later the careers of 
     so many other progressive politicians in the State of 
     California. It was a profound organization, in terms of its 
     influence in California. In the post-war, in the conservative 
     years, it was an organization, that led by Alan, would speak 
     out on nuclear arms control, on civil rights, on the rights 
     of labor--these issues that became the cornerstone for so 
     many of us who later sought to run for political life in the 
     State of California.
       I think it's rather fitting that we remember Alan at this 
     time. Because we can remember when a conservative 
     administration came to this town twenty years ago and sought 
     to launch an attack on programs for the poor, on women and 
     the ill, on foster care and adoption, on child health, on 
     handicapped education, and so many other programs that were 
     targeted for elimination. Alan and his colleagues not only 
     led that fight, but participated in it, stood their ground, 
     and fought against those efforts, and today, when we see a 
     new administration arriving in town, we're no longer talking 
     about the elimination of these programs, we're talking about 
     making them work better. We recognize the beneficiaries of 
     these programs, and the benefits to our society. We now see 
     that, in fact, because of the fight that was made a long time 
     ago, we now have a legacy of understanding the role and the 
     importance that government plays in so many American's lives, 
     and the necessity of it. We've heard it with respect to 
     veterans, we've heard it with respect to the environment, to 
     women, and to so many others in American society.
       Many of us would think that if you look at the last quarter 
     of the 20th century in American politics, you would think of 
     extreme ideological behavior, you'd think of political chaos, 
     and you would suggest that not a lot got done. But, as 
     already had been mentioned here, if you look at the legacy 
     and the workload and the work product of Alan Cranston, you 
     would recognize that, in fact, it was a golden age of 
     legislation for people like Alan Cranston. He was able to put 
     his signature and his work into so many efforts that became 
     the law of the land. I recall two of those, working with him 
     as a colleague in the House. One was in the 70s; in the late 
     70s, after five years of working together, of holding 
     hearings, site visits, talking with families and children, we 
     put together legislation to deal with the problems of foster 
     care, to children who were trapped in a system from which 
     they could not escape, families who could not get their 
     children back from that system, and the impact that it had on 
     these children. That law was later signed by President 
     Carter, and it was Alan's tenacity that allowed us to get it 
     through.
       The other one of course, that's been mentioned here, is the 
     California Desert. Alan started pioneering that effort so 
     many years ago, so many years before we actually considered 
     it on the floor of the House or the Senate. Where he walked 
     over those areas, he hiked over them, he spent time with the 
     constituents who were interested in them, with the 
     organizations that were trying to preserve them. Kim has 
     spent much time in that area. And, after Alan left the 
     Senate, I managed the bill on the floor of the House. The 
     opponents were numerous; we used to have to have security and 
     armed guards to go into the hearings on the California Desert 
     Bill. They held the controversial ones in Beverly Hills, so 
     that people would have trouble getting there, it was a grand 
     ploy. And it worked. But, in any case, the opposition in the 
     House was incredible. We spent many, many, many, many days 
     debating this legislation, on again, off again, part of the 
     day, into the night. They filed numerous amendments, all of 
     which had unlimited debate time. They had a coterie of people 
     who would speak on every amendment for the maximum time 
     allowed, so that they could delay this bill and not see it 
     enacted. I called Alan and I said, ``Alan, we've got to 
     accept some amendments to speed this along. The members of 
     the House are starting to call me Moses, they've said they've 
     been in the desert for so long on this legislation.'' I said, 
     ``Some of these amendments, what can we accept to narrow this 
     down'', and he said, ``None''. And I said, ``Alan, this is 
     the House, it will never stop'', and he said, ``None''. He 
     said ``We can't accept them''. I talked to him about a couple 
     of amendments to move the boundaries, he said, ``No, I've 
     been there; I've been there and if you go to the bottom of 
     that canyon, you're going to find a little spring down 
     there--most people don't know it exists. You can't put that 
     outside the park, that's going to have to be in.'' Well, it's 
     turned out he was right. Dianne managed the bill on the 
     Senate floor, and Bill Clinton signed it into law, and now 
     it's one of our leading attractions in the nation and 
     certainly in the State of California. Those who opposed it 
     are now seeking authorizations and appropriations for 
     visitors centers and various support systems for the park. 
     (Laughter.) The Chambers of Commerce now think that this is a 
     cash register and they'd like to have it expanded, they'd 
     like to have the boundaries expanded, they'd like to have the 
     protections upgraded, so that more visitors would come and 
     bless their economy. It was Alan Cranston's foresight that 
     brought that about.
       You know, the political mentor to so many of us, Phil 
     Burton, used to say to us that when you came to the House or 
     you came to the Senate, that it was a privilege and it was an 
     honor, and you had to pay the rent, you had to pay the rent 
     all the time to stay there. And I think that Alan fully 
     understood that while this clearly was the world's most 
     exclusive club, he still had to pay the rent, and he did over 
     and over and over again, on behalf of so many Americans, on 
     behalf of our environment, on behalf of world peace, on 
     behalf of human rights. He paid the rent constantly to earn 
     his right to stay here and to work and to work and to work on 
     behalf of all of us. And I think we should thank him, for all 
     of the fights that he made, and all of the ground that he 
     stood, on behalf of America, and all of its people. Thank you 
     very much, Alan. (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Thank you, Representative Miller.
       Next, we will hear from a Senator who served on two 
     Committees with Alan--Banking and Foreign Relations--where 
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     shared many common interests. Senator Kerry was a highly 
     decorated veteran of Vietnam and a co-founder of the Vietnam 
     Veterans of America, an organization which was to play an 
     important role in the enactment of much legislation that he 
     and Senator Cranston championed, particularly the Veterans' 
     Judicial Review Act that created the Court on which I am 
     honored to serve along with another former Member of Congress 
     who is also with us today, Chief Judge Ken Kramer.
       Senator Kerry succeeded to the Democratic leadership of the 
     Banking Committee's Housing Subcommittee, which Senator 
     Cranston had chaired from 1987 to 1993. Also, I know that 
     Senator Kerry shares the passion that Senator Cranston lived 
     and breathed for ending the threat of nuclear annihilation.
       Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. (Applause.)
       Senator John Kerry. Thank you, Jonathan. Kim, Colette, 
     Evan, and R.E., it's a very special privilege to join with 
     all of you today in remembering the remarkable life and 
     achievements of our friend, Alan Cranston.
       As we've heard today, and as we all know, Alan was a 
     sprinter, a record-holding sprinter, who, in his sixties, was 
     only two seconds slower than he was in his twenties when he 
     set the records. And I think it's safe to say that those who 
     knew him well would agree that he really sprinted through 
     life; he sprinted through the United States Senate, always 
     with a yellow pad in his hand and a felt-tip pen, covered 
     with ink, with more things on that pad to do in one day than 
     most of us would venture to accomplish in a week or a month, 
     and he got them done. And always with this incredible, 
     mischievous twinkle in his eye. He had fun advocating and 
     challenging the system.
       One of the most enduring images of Alan would be at the 
     Iowa caucuses in 1984 at the Holiday Inn in Keokuk, Iowa, 
     where he was seen sprinting barefooted down 40-meter 
     hallways, then he'd walk back, and he'd repeat the exercise 
     for about 40 minutes. And I think that understanding that, we 
     can understand why it was no coincidence that Alan's favorite 
     hotel was the Chicago O'Hare Hilton, where they had 250-meter 
     hallways. (Laughter.)
       Three weeks ago in California, we had a tender goodbye to 
     our friend, this sprinter, at a memorial service--calling to 
     mind the many ways in which he enriched our lives and this 
     country.
       There in the Grace Cathedral, we heard Colette Cranston say 
     that in death Alan Cranston ``has become my Jiminy Cricket--
     that little voice in [her] conscience that says, `Colette, 
     think before you leap.''' It would not be an exaggeration to 
     say that that warning was a characteristic of Alan--think 
     before you leap, and, most of all, he wanted us to think, he 
     wanted us to look, and, by God, he wanted us to leap. He 
     implored us to put a public face on policy. He wanted us to 
     think not in terms of statistics and numbers and programs, 
     but in terms of people; and the people he spoke of most 
     often, as all of my colleagues who served with him will 
     remember, were senior citizens, children, those without 
     decent housing, immigrants, those in need of a helping hand 
     regardless of race or religion. He was a moral voice, a voice 
     of conscience, someone who understood that even as he 
     remained vigilant in defending the needs and wishes of his 
     home state of California, he was also a global citizen and he 
     knew and felt the responsibilities of this institution, 
     towards the rest of the world.
       Through four terms as a United States Senator, he also 
     remained a man of enormous humility--on his answering machine 
     he was simply ``Alan''--as he was to so many who worked with 
     him and knew him. And this personal sense of place and of 
     restraint made it easy to underestimate the contributions 
     that he made to the Senate, and to our country. Certainly he 
     never paused long enough to personally remind us of the 
     impact of his service, of the history that he was a part of 
     and the lives that he touched.
       I first met Alan in 1971 when I had returned from Vietnam 
     and many of our veterans were part of an effort to end what 
     we thought was a failed policy in that country. In Alan 
     Cranston we found one of the few Senators willing not just to 
     join in public opposition to the war in Vietnam, but to 
     become a voice of healing for veterans of the war--a 
     statesman whose leadership enabled others, over time, to 
     separate their feelings about the war from their feelings for 
     the veterans of the war. At a time when too many wanted 
     literally to disown this country's own veterans, Alan 
     Cranston offered them a warm embrace. He was eager to do 
     something all too rare in Washington: To listen--and he 
     listened to veterans who had much to say, much of it ignored 
     for too long. He honored their pride and their pain with his 
     sensitivity and his understanding.
       That's when I first came to see the great energy and the 
     commitment that he brought to issues affecting veterans, 
     especially those of the Vietnam era. He was deeply involved 
     on veterans' health care issues, among the first to fight for 
     the recognition of post-Vietnam stress syndrome, a leader in 
     insisting, together with Sonny Montgomery, on the extension 
     of coverage under the VA, under the GI Bill. And when the 
     Agent Orange issue came to the fore, Alan insisted on getting 
     answers from a government that was unresponsive. He made sure 
     that veterans and their families got the care that they 
     needed. Under his leadership, together with his partner in 
     the House, they increased GI Bill benefits for Vietnam 
     veterans--and I tell you that that was a time when veterans 
     too often had to fight for what was their simple due, whether 
     it was a memorial here in Washington, or simply to have the 
     government recognize that it was a war, and not simply a 
     conflict. Alan's leadership made all the difference. It's a 
     sad truth in our history that a weary nation indeed seemed 
     eager to turn its back on the entire war by also turning its 
     back on so many veterans. It should forever be a source of 
     pride to the Cranston family that Alan was chief among those 
     who insisted that America honor that service and keep faith 
     with sons who left pieces of themselves and years of their 
     lives on the battlefield in Vietnam.
       This was a man who fought with extraordinary passion for 
     everything. And he fought at the most difficult of times. Not 
     just for veterans, but as we've heard from others today, he 
     fought against all that war represents--remembering that war, 
     and the killing that follows it, is the ultimate failure of 
     diplomacy.
       Alan Cranston was above all else a man of peace. And he was 
     a man of peace not as a matter of public policy, but as a 
     matter of personal passion. Remember: This was a man who, in 
     1934, found himself in the same room as Adolf Hitler. Five 
     years later, he wrote a critical English translation of Adolf 
     Hitler's ``Mein Kampf'' in an effort to reveal the German 
     leader's true plans. And he wore Hitler's ensuing lawsuit as 
     a badge of honor, proud that he had stood up to try and warn 
     the English-speaking world about the evils of Nazism.
       Throughout the rest of his service he used public office to 
     force Americans to listen to other prescient warnings--about 
     nuclear war, about the arms race, about hopes for peace that 
     he refused to give up even as others chose to beat the drums 
     of war.
       Senator Cranston came to his famous commitment, as we 
     learned from the film, after meeting with Albert Einstein in 
     1946. And he left that meeting convinced that he had found 
     his mission and he would indeed spend the balance of his life 
     arguing that conviction before the world.
       As a member of the Senate leadership and a senior voice on 
     the Democratic side of the Foreign Relations Committee, he 
     worked tirelessly to reduce the nuclear threat. Obviously, 
     there were many of those efforts, but one of the most 
     unpublicized was his effort through the 1970s and 80's, when 
     he convened a unique group known as the ``SALT Study Group''. 
     A senators-only gathering monthly in his office, off the 
     record, face-to-face to define the confines of the debate. He 
     knew the impact that quiet diplomacy could have on the 
     issues, but on this issue above all that he cared about the 
     most.
       He loved the Peace Corps, and he fought for it. He fought 
     to attach human rights conditions on aid to El Salvador. He 
     was a leading national advocate for the mutual verifiable 
     freeze. He was always an idealist whose increase in political 
     power, gratefully, was always met by progress for the issues 
     that he cared about so deeply. It was not just the work of a 
     career, but the work of a lifetime--and after he left the 
     Senate, we all know the remarkable commitment that he 
     continued with Mikhail Gorbachev and ultimately in his 
     founding of the Global Security Institute.
       He did that because he sensed that the end of the Cold War, 
     with all of the opportunity that it afforded, which he 
     understood, still left us a world that was more dangerous, 
     and he was haunted by the threat of nuclear terrorism. We 
     missed his voice in the debate on the test ban treaty, and we 
     miss him even more today.
       When he left the Senate, Alan reflected on his service and 
     he said of his own legacy, simply: ``Most of all, I have 
     dedicated myself to the cause of peace.''
       That dedication was real, it was lasting, and the legacy of 
     peace for a good and peaceful man who gave living embodiment 
     to Culbertson's simple, stubborn faith that ``God and the 
     politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon 
     the world, and win it.'' That belief was Alan Cranston--and 
     it's a belief still worth fighting for. (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Our concluding speaker from this 
     body is also one of its newest members. She traveled to 
     California three weeks ago, as did Senator Kerry, as he told 
     us, to attend the ceremony attended by over a thousand 
     persons at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. For reasons 
     that I know she will share with us, she will be--along with 
     Max Cleland--a living legacy of Alan Cranston in the United 
     States Senate.
       Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington. (Applause.)
       Senator Maria Cantwell. Thank you. To Kim and Colette and 
     Evan and R.E., thank you for allowing me to share this 
     occasion to remember Alan and to have been there a few weeks 
     ago and to see so many of the friends and faces that Alan 
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       People today have talked about Alan's legislative career--
     the many pieces of legislation that will live with us for a 
     long time. But I'd like to share with you today maybe a 
     different Alan Cranston that I knew as I worked on his 
     Presidential campaign in 1983 and 1984. Some people might 
     think running for President is a glorious task, but it is a 
     very difficult one that I think Alan knew would help aid the 
     cause and message that he wanted to fight for. In fact, I'm 
     not from Washington state originally; it was Alan Cranston 
     that dropped me off there in 1983. In fact, the first time I 
     ever visited, I was a part of his presidential campaign 
     staff, in which he left me at SEA-TAC Airport in Seattle and 
     went on about his business to campaign. But people who knew 
     Alan knew that he jumped into that race to deliver a message 
     for the right reason. I was fortunate enough to have read 
     R.E.'s book about Alan, and knew all the things that Alan had 
     fought through in his life, some of the things that have been 
     mentioned today. About being sued by Adolf Hitler for 
     translating in next to no time a version of ``Mein Kampf''. 
     Being a pre-World War II journalist and being smart enough to 
     understand what was going to be advocated and running back to 
     the United States and having that published. And all of the 
     other wonderful things that Alan did in helping women, and on 
     the environment; one thing I haven't heard mentioned today is 
     his work with Native Americans, which is something that I 
     recognize.
       But what was amazing about Alan from a personal 
     perspective, and you definitely get to know someone from a 
     personal perspective when you travel with him on a 
     presidential campaign, is that Alan was very self 
     disciplined. John Kerry talked about his running, and that 
     was something that was very important to Alan on a daily 
     basis. And, yes, I can attest to the fact that he did sprint 
     in the hotel corridors when you didn't schedule time for him 
     to run outside. But, when Alan, challenged with the fact that 
     maybe some of the other hotel guests found it shocking to 
     find somebody so tall and long running down the halls at 7:30 
     in the morning, the Senator replied, ``well maybe I should 
     start at 6:30 instead.'' (Laughter.)
       But Alan never complained about that task. And for me, in 
     Washington state, there were lots of World Federalists, a lot 
     of people part of the nuclear freeze movement, a lot of 
     people very appreciative of his efforts on the environment. 
     But Alan was also a very self-deprecating person when it came 
     to making a moment light. And I'll never forget the time in 
     Vancouver, Washington, where hundreds of people had showed up 
     at eight-thirty on a Sunday morning, I think it was the 
     Fourth of July, to hear his message about the nuclear freeze. 
     And when he mistakenly called the host of the event, whose 
     name was ``June'', ``Jane'', and he heard a gasp from the 
     audience, he quickly looked down at his program and saw that 
     he had mistakenly called her the wrong name, and all of a 
     sudden started pounding on his chest, saying, ``Me Tarzan! 
     You Jane!'' (Laughter.) Which put everybody at ease, and Alan 
     went on to give his very important remarks to a community 
     that I don't think has seen since the likes of Alan Cranston.
       And yet, when you run a Presidential campaign, you also are 
     a spokesperson for your issues. But I never saw Alan take 
     advantage of that situation, where he was trying to make more 
     than the situation called for. In fact, he was very reserved 
     in his comments. I remember being with him on August 31, in 
     1983, when the Korean Airline flight 007 was shot down. We 
     happened to be in Anchorage, Alaska, at that time, and many 
     of you probably know the various controversies that arose out 
     of that; 269 people were killed. And I remember waking up 
     that morning to a press event where probably 200 different 
     people were there, including the national press, all wanting 
     Alan to make a statement right away; because he was a 
     Presidential candidate, because his remarks would be all over 
     the news. And yet Alan had the self discipline not just to 
     say something immediately that morning, but to say, in a 
     calming way, ``let's find out the facts, first.'' And when I 
     think about that as a human being, particularly in my new 
     post and job, in which the world moves so fast and in which 
     people go about promoting their idea and concepts, the very 
     human side of Alan Cranston remains with me, and I hope it 
     does with each of you.
       I talked to him in October of this year, in which I was out 
     campaigning in Bellingham, Washington, one of the last places 
     I had to campaign with him, and I said to him, ``Senator, you 
     dropped me off here almost seventeen years ago, and you never 
     picked me up.'' And Alan reminded me that is was time to work 
     together. So I guess I say to Kim, and Colette, and R.E., and 
     to those of you who are going to carry on the Cranston 
     legacy, that he left in each one of us a piece of that flame 
     that he carried for so long. You saw it on the film. It 
     started when Albert Einstein said to him, ``nuclear arms 
     could wipe out a whole race of people.'' I think Alan started 
     saying that from that moment on, and reminded people about it 
     until his last days. And so I hope that each and every one of 
     you, as I will, carries part of that torch and flame that 
     Alan had of self-discipline, knowing that he was not the 
     message, but the messenger, in helping this fight. Thank you. 
     (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. And now we'll hear from Alan 
     Cranston's son Kim, who I know is committed to seeing that 
     Alan's lifelong commitment to securing world peace is carried 
     on as his most important bequest to his granddaughter Evan 
     and all the children of our planet.
       Kim. (Applause.)
       Kim Cranston. Thank you, all. Those of you who were 
     familiar with the legal pads that Alan carried around and the 
     black pens will be happy to know that Evan is over here busy 
     making a ``to do'' list. (Laughter.) I'm not sure what it all 
     includes.
       Jonathan, thank you very much for helping to organize this, 
     and everybody else who was involved in this, the Senate 
     sponsors, and each of the other speakers; I deeply appreciate 
     your kind and touching words about Alan and his work here. 
     It's good to see all of you, so many old friends. It's sad 
     under the circumstances that we come together, but it's 
     wonderful to see you all again. I know how much Alan 
     cherished your friendship and collaboration over the years.
       I was really truly blessed, I feel, to have, through the 
     genetic lottery, ended up as Alan's son, and had the 
     opportunity to get to know him as my father, as my dearest 
     and oldest friend, and as a wonderful collaborator, mentor, 
     teacher, and leader. And I know his loss as a leader is a 
     loss we all share.
       I've been reflecting over the last month on many of the 
     things that I've learned from Alan and our work together, 
     living with him, and a few things stand out that I wanted to 
     share today. One thing that stood out for me was the 
     remarkable style of leadership he had. Inside the program is 
     the poem that he carried, the Lao-Tzu quote, for most of his 
     life, that really informed the style of leadership that he 
     practiced. It concludes with:

     But of a good leader,
     When his work is done,
     His aim fulfilled,
     They will all say,
     ``We did this ourselves.''

       And so today, we're here, recognizing what we accomplished 
     together with Alan. And so it's an opportunity not only to 
     mourn his loss, but to celebrate what we accomplished 
     together, and I think, beyond that, to recommit, and commit 
     to the ongoing causes that we engaged in with him.
       Another lesson that has stood out in the last month for me 
     was something that I really remember when I first began 
     hearing it from him. I was told the central purpose of life 
     was to make the world a better place, or, as one of Alan's 
     heros, Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, ``life's most 
     persistent and urgent question is `what are you doing to 
     serve others?' '' And it was certainly in that spirit that 
     Alan conducted his life and committed most of his public 
     life.
       And, finally, one other thing that stands out very strongly 
     for me, both in terms of the work that he did here in 
     Washington, and to the work that he continued to do after he 
     left Washington, was his recognition of the extraordinary 
     moment in history in which we all live. In that regard, I 
     just note that a friend commented after Alan had left the 
     Senate, that they had seen him, and they said, ``Kim, you 
     know, he doesn't seem to be slowing down, he seems to be 
     speeding up.'' And I think that was true, because he said to 
     me that he'd felt since he left the Senate that he could 
     really focus in on the things that he was most concerned 
     about, to devote 100% of his energy to those causes that were 
     of greatest concern to him. And I think the cornerstone of 
     that was an understanding that we have entered a new age 
     during our lifetime, when we're facing global challenges that 
     can be addressed only at the global level, and that we need 
     to come up with effective new approaches for dealing with 
     those challenges.
       After he left the Senate, the cause did continue, most 
     recently in the form of the Global Security Institute, which 
     is continuing, and it has a great board, and a wonderful 
     director, Jonathan Granoff, our CEO, who is here today. And I 
     would really urge those of you who are here today who shared 
     in those causes with Alan to look forward to opportunities to 
     collaborate with us, because the work goes on, and Alan was 
     just the messenger.
       In closing, I'd just like to say something I know Alan 
     closed most of his speeches with, which was, ``I thank you 
     for all you are doing, and urge you onward.'' Thank you. 
     (Applause.)
       Judge Jonathan Steinberg. Thank you, Kim. I know your 
     father would be proud of your personal actions to pick up the 
     torch and deeply moved by your words.
       I want to close with some expressions of thanks to many 
     people. Again, I want to note how grateful all of us are to 
     the sponsoring Senators and to all who spoke so eloquently 
     and movingly about the man who will live forever in my heart 
     as ``Alan,'' as the most important influence on the lives of 
     so many of us in this room today.
       The presence here throughout this entire ceremony of three 
     Cabinet officials in this new Administration should remind us 
     all of Alan's abiding belief that it was possible to form an 
     alliance with every Senator on one issue or another, and of 
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     do just that. Common ground and common sense was much more 
     important to him than party affiliation or political 
     philosophy. We thank the three Secretaries who joined us 
     today and helped remind us of how important those sentiments 
     are for the welfare of our country.
       There are an enormous number of people who volunteered 
     their time and did just incredible work to make this tribute 
     as successful and meaningful as we hope that it has been. If 
     I leave anyone out, I apologize--as I do, and as I did 
     before, if I left out any former officeholder, who I should 
     have recognized earlier. So, I offer special thanks, on 
     behalf of the family and myself, alphabetically, to Zack 
     Allen, Bill Brew, Fran Butler, Monique Ceruti, Kelly Cordes, 
     Chad Griffin, Bill Johnstone, Susanne Martinez, Katie 
     O'Neill, Dan Perry, Valerie Rheinstein, Alexandra Sardegna, 
     Ed Scott, Martha Stanley, Loraine Tong, Joel Wood, and one 
     most special person, Elinor Tucker, without whose highly 
     efficient logistical support we would never have made it to 
     this point. I thank Senator Rockefeller for allowing her to 
     put in so much time and effort and to do so in such an 
     effective way. Finally, an even more personal thanks to my 
     wife, Shellie, for helping to keep me on an relatively even 
     keel over the past month as this event was pulled together.
       And, finally, thanks to all of you who joined us in tribute 
     today to Senator Alan McGregor Cranston, a great American who 
     lived his life by the philosophy of a Chinese poet Lao-Tzu, 
     whose words on leadership, printed in today's program, Alan 
     carried with him every day.
       That concludes this Tribute. Please remember to sign the 
     guest book, and thanks again for coming. And we'll go out to 
     the theme song from Alan's Presidential campaign, ``Chariots 
     of Fire''. (Applause.)

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