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Robert Dornan: “But today I rise to do that very thing for someone very close to me, my wife. Today is her birthday, but it is also our…”

On the recordApril 16, 1996
But today I rise to do that very thing for someone very close to me, my wife. Today is her birthday, but it is also our 41st wedding anniversary. Last year it was the day that I declared for President in the city of by birth, the island of my birth, Manhattan, in New York City. It was Easter Sunday last year, the 16th, and we went to mass in the beautiful cathedral where I was baptized, the seventh largest church in the world, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. On that beautiful Easter Sunday, we went up to the baptismal font where I became a Christian and we retook our wedding vows, and this last year has been one of the most exciting, delightful years of my life, running, fulfilling a boyhood dream for the Presidency of this great United States.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Celebrating his wife's birthday and their wedding anniversary during a floor speech.

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