Heidi Alexander: “in a few minutes, I want to speak about President Trump's nomination of Eugene Scalia to be the Secretary of Labor, but…”

“in a few minutes, I want to speak about President Trump's nomination of Eugene Scalia to be the Secretary of Labor, but first I want to introduce two speeches that I made in Tennessee into the Record. I notice the room nearly cleared when I observed I was about to make some speeches, but at least there are some people watching. The first speech was on August 26 of this year in Clinton, TN. It had to do with the Clinton 12. These were 12 students, some as young as 14 years of age, who walked down a hill and enrolled in Clinton High School in 1956--63 years ago--and became the first students to integrate a public school in the South. Many of us remember what happened the next year in Arkansas, when Governor Faubus stood in the door, and President Eisenhower had to send in the troops to integrate Little Rock Central High School. I remember those days very well. I was in high school myself then. It is hard to imagine the courage it must have taken for those children to walk down that hill and integrate that school. Most of them were there in Clinton, TN, when they were honored in the month of August. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my remarks on the Clinton 12 Commemorative Walk we took that day be printed in the Record following my remarks about Mr. Scalia. Tennessee Valley Fair Secondly, the Tennessee Valley Fair. It is a big event in Knoxville, TN, that was held on September 6.…”