Nancy Pelosi: “I am pleased to join my California colleagues, and others, in singing the praises of one great man, Leo McCarthy. Mr.…”

“I am pleased to join my California colleagues, and others, in singing the praises of one great man, Leo McCarthy. Mr. Speaker, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, there is a chapter known as the Eulogy of Heroes; its words could be used to describe Leo McCarthy. "Now let us praise great men, the heroes of our nation's history, through whom the Lord has established His renown and revealed His majesty. Some were sage counselors who led the people by their counsel and by their knowledge of the law; out of their fund of wisdom, they gave instruction. They were men of loyalty, whose good deeds have not been forgotten." I know that all who knew Leo McCarthy knows how fitting that description is of him. Leo McCarthy was indeed such a person. And as the Eulogy of Heroes proclaims, "He will be buried in peace, but his name lives forever, as people recount his wisdom." Leo's great wisdom was in knowing that the future of his children, Sharon, Conna, Adam and Niall, was linked to the destiny of all children.”