Robert Dornan: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish that I had a national radio show where the producers or syndication owners would allow me…”

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish that I had a national radio show where the producers or syndication owners would allow me to read for about a week from this great book with a plain brown cover, POW, a definitive history of the American prisoner of war experience in Vietnam, 1964 to 1973, by John G. Hubbell in association with Andrew Jones and Kenneth Y. Tomlinson. I just saw him out in the hall recently. I believe he still works for Readers Digest. Listen to some of our workers, civilian workers in Vietnam and what happened to them during the Tet offensive. I called this provision of the Missing Service Personnel Act written by Bob Dole and Chairman Ben Gilman of this House and by liberal Democrat of honor Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and gutted last night at 2 o'clock in the Senate House conference; I called this last amendment to protect civilians under orders traveling with our Armed Forces in the field, I called it the Mike Benge amendment. And here is why. Page 424. This chapter has a Latin title. I remember it in my Latin. Jesuit priest taught me. Illegitamae Non Carborundum. Do not let the bastards get you down, talking about these vicious Communist captures. ``After being captured during the Tet offensive, Mike Benge, the Agency for International Development agriculture adviser, Betty Ann Olsen, a missionary nurse, and Hank Blood, a missionary linguist, had walked the jungle trails together for months. At first the three were kept chained.…”