On the recordNovember 13, 1997
this is truly a very bad time for us. I wish Ms. Lister, instead of going to this Harvard symposium, would have been where I was a week ago and seen the 222nd birthday of the United States Marine Corps, and hear the commandant talk about the legend of Bella Wood in World War I, or talk about what happened at Iwo Jima in World War II, or talk about Khe Sahn or Inchon, or what the Marines did there, or look at what happened in Lebanon in 1980s. What gets me is this same administration that has shown contempt for readiness in the name of political correctness in the 1990s may have contempt for the Marines, may be elitist and have elitist attitudes, but every time there is a problem halfway across the world, they have no problem picking up the phone and dialing their 911, and that continues to be and has always been, for 222 years, the United States Marine Corps. Let us forget the spin control, let us forget the apologies. They are too late. She must resign and leave her position at once.
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