Mike Pence: “My father was Ed Pence, who raised a family of four boys and two girls that were the passion of his life until he passed…”

“My father was Ed Pence, who raised a family of four boys and two girls that were the passion of his life until he passed away in 1988 at the young age of 58, leaving all of us to this day heartbroken. And let me say that my father was tough as a father with a drill instructor background. He was at times completely unfair. His punishments were unjustifiable and without appeal, but my father was there, and that privilege for me is one of the greatest evidences of God's grace in my life. And my father's presence in my life and the lives of my brothers and sisters I have tried to emulate and replicate in the lives of Michael and Charlotte and Audrey who sit at our home at this hour watching this important conversation. It is one of the sublime privileges of my life to be their daddy and to try to live up to the high standards of my father.”