Douglas Alexander: “I join the distinguished Senator from Kentucky in saying a word about the Chaplain, Lloyd Ogilvie. I am a new Senator…”

“I join the distinguished Senator from Kentucky in saying a word about the Chaplain, Lloyd Ogilvie. I am a new Senator, as is the Presiding Officer, and there have been a great many wonderful things about coming to the Senate. But nothing has surpassed the privilege of getting to know Lloyd Ogilvie in these first couple of months. I have watched him and listened, and I have learned from him. I have been comforted by him. I am deeply grateful for that. This month in Billy Graham's publication, ``Decision,'' Lloyd Ogilvie's picture is on the front, and there is an interview with him about his 8 years in the Senate. It is a clue about why he has been such an inspiration to so many Senators. The task of any spiritual leader is to listen. You can't minister to individuals or to a group unless you know what is going on. That is the reason that I have to be there. Lloyd Ogilvie has been a counselor. He is a minister. He is a listener--maybe a listener above all. I have found in my conversations with him that I suspect he knows more about the Senate than any other individual because he knows the hearts of the Senators.”