Political Quotes

“And we filled Constitution Hall. I know it has been a long time. It has been a long time, and sooner or later you just have to cut it off. I listened with great interest to the recitation of those still missing from Korea and World War II. They were bigger numbers of missing from those wars than from Vietnam. Certainly, they made a lot of progress in Vietnam. But, on the other hand, there are still some families out there who just would like one last certification by the President of the United States that progress is not only good, but that this is it: Vietnam is not withholding. They are willing to accept that. It is the families that have endured the pain of not knowing for 20 or more years. Families who deserve final answers. Let's finally have an answer for Jane Duke Gaylor in El Dorado, KS, as to what happened to her son, Charles Duke, a civilian technician missing from Pleiku, Vietnam, since May 30, 1970. Answers to Mary Hall in Altoona, KS, as to what happened to her husband, T. Sgt. Willis R. Hall at Lima Site 85, overrun March 11, 1968. And answers to Carol Hrdlicka in Conway Springs, KS, as to what happened to her husband, Col. David Hrdlicka, shot down over Laos in 1965, and whose picture appeared in Pravda and in Vietnamese newspapers in 1966. In that time, there has been some progress--345 Americans have been accounted for. But this progress only occurred after serious and sustained pressure from the United States.”