Romano Mazzoli: “I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin. The gentleman brings up some very interesting recollections. One I have is that…”

“I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin. The gentleman brings up some very interesting recollections. One I have is that Bill Natcher, as my friend from Kentucky to whom I will yield in a moment will attest, Bill remembered all of the data in all of these budgets. He had that tucked way in his capacious brain. The story was he said to people that he would know when it was time to leave, unlike some of the jurists and people, he would know when he couldn't recall the data from any budget that he had ever put together in the Committee on Appropriations all the way back to 1953 or '54, when he came on it. As we know from all the breakfasts we have enjoyed over all these years as he was standing before any group, whether it was a Farm Bureau group or a child welfare group, he would have in his brain all of the data from all of the budgets. {time} 2030 So actually he passed on never having lost any of that sharp edge that the gentleman is talking about. His ability to remember, his ability to synthesize this information, was legendary, and he, therefore, becomes one of those people whom I would call an icon of this place, a person who brings credit to it and brings credit to all of us by the very fact that we were able to serve with him. The gentleman from Kentucky.”