Political Quotes

“I would just add my voice to the accolades being given to George Mikan. He did his college basketball playing and attended DePaul University, which is in my congressional district. I can tell my friends from Minnesota that all of Chicago and Illinois are indeed proud of the accomplishments of George Mikan and the people at DePaul University salivate every time they hear his name. I join your comments. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor this evening to pay tribute to one of our country's most celebrated and most effective print and radio journalists, Mr. Latrell "Lu" Palmer who is retiring and will be featured at a retirement celebration on April 14 at the Reverend Johnnie Coleman Complex, 119th and Loomis in Chicago. Lu Palmer was born in 1922 in Newport News, Virginia, and attended its schools there. He then went on to Virginia University and earned a bachelor's degree in 1942. Later on, in 1947, he earned a master's degree from Syracuse University and later on went to Iowa State University in 1955 where he completed the course work for a doctorate's degree. Lu never wrote his dissertation so he ended up with what people called an ABCD, that is, all but the dissertation degree. Lu Palmer then went on to have an outstanding career at the Chicago Daily Defender newspaper, the Chicago Courier, the Chicago American, the Chicago Daily News, and then established his own paper, the Black X Express, which he ran for several years.”