On the recordDecember 1, 1997
The gentleman from Texas (Sam Johnson), who spent 7 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, who surely earned the right to speak to and refute that defense, refuted it very capably here today.
Henry Hyde: “The gentleman from Texas (Sam Johnson), who spent 7 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, who surely earned the right…”
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