John Chenoweth: “Mr. Chairman, I guess one of the things that strikes a freshman when they come to this very distinguished body is the…”

“Mr. Chairman, I guess one of the things that strikes a freshman when they come to this very distinguished body is the fact that somehow the process just does not meet the reality. The process just does not meet the human misery that Government action has caused to happen, the human misery so adequately described by the gentleman from Louisiana and the human misery that I want to begin to impart to this body. I had a client in Morrisville, PA, whose name was John Poszgai. Mr. Poszgai was a freedom fighter born in Hungary. When he was a young man he was a lieutenant in the Hungarian Army. He was a tank commander when the Russians came rolling into Hungary and the Hungarians, with a spark and desire to fight for freedom, were crying out to America to help them. And yet the Hungarian freedom fighters fought on their own. When the Russian commanders took a bullhorn and told John Poszgai and the other tank commanders to turn fire on his own men, he instead turned fire on the Russians. The desire for freedom and liberty always burned very strongly in this man's heart and spirit.”