John Doolittle: “I thank the gentleman. Recalling our early days together, I must say, every now and then, back in those days, it seems…”

“I thank the gentleman. Recalling our early days together, I must say, every now and then, back in those days, it seems like we had a lot of late nights here. Every now and then, we would go over to the Pentagon City Mall and have ribs and baked potatoes at the Silver Spoon, which was a great experience. I kind of looked forward to those occasions since we were both back here on our own for the first 8 or 9 months or so. That was better than having to cook for ourselves. That was always preferable. So, Frank, those are memories I will treasure as we move on here in life. I recall once Frank Riggs told me in a conference, I do not remember how this came up, but he told me that there were three things that he had considered being when he grew up. This is what he thought as a young person. One was to be a police officer, which in fact he did become, serving I believe in the Santa Barbara Police Department and then eventually, I do not remember the county, but it is Marin County or one of those up in Northern California, the sheriff's department. The other thing he wanted to be was a high school coach. He never became a full-time high school coach, but he did, indeed, and does, I guess, presently serve as high school coach for both his daughter and as well for his son, two different teams. Being a Member of Congress and a subcommittee chairman, I do not know how he did it, but he did all those things at the same time.”