[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18479]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           SHOCKING EVIDENCE REGARDING FORMER U.S. PRESIDENTS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Feeney) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FEENEY. Mr. Speaker, it is very rare that I come to the well to 
encourage my colleagues to pay attention to television in general or 
the news in specific, but I do that here today because there are 
unconfirmed reports that there are some shocking documents that may be 
produced tonight by 60 Minutes and CBS News concerning some American 
presidents.
  It turns out that, reportedly, CBS News has documentary evidence that 
Washington did not cross the Delaware to surprise the British but, 
rather, in an attempt to surrender in the American Revolutionary War. 
We are waiting to see the specifics of these documents.
  Apparently, President Eisenhower, on the day of D-Day, was not 
commanding the American and allied troops but, rather, was golfing 
somewhere in the British Isles, and the allegations are that there may 
be a golf scorecard produced tonight on CBS and 60 Minutes news.
  It turns out that President Richard Nixon, apparently, we again have 
not seen the evidence yet, never did have a dog named Checkers. 
Actually, the Nixon dog was named Alger Hiss, for whom the Nixons were 
secret admirers.
  And finally, apparently, there is evidence that we may see tonight 
that President Reagan was all along a closet socialist and urged Mr. 
Gorbachev to tear down that wall to provide an opportunity to roll 
through and conquer Western Europe.
  Mr. Speaker, 60 Minutes allegedly is not going to renounce any of 
these allegations until they have definitive proof to the contrary, and 
I would urge my colleagues not to always believe what you hear. And 
sometimes, do not even believe what you see.

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