David Price: “Mr. Speaker, on April 3, North Carolina and the Nation lost one of our most distinguished citizens and public servants…”

“Mr. Speaker, on April 3, North Carolina and the Nation lost one of our most distinguished citizens and public servants, L. Richardson Preyer. It is a privilege today to join with my colleagues in paying tribute to his life and his work, which were memorialized at a moving and majestic service at Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church on April 5. Rich Preyer served in this body with great dignity and effectiveness for six terms, from 1969 to 1980. He was a senior member of what was then called the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and he chaired the Government Information and Individual Rights Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. The Almanac of American Politics noted his reputation for "great integrity and sound judgment" which led the House leadership to call upon him "to serve in some difficult and unpleasant assignments." These included the committee investigating assassinations, where he headed the subcommittee investigating the assassination of President Kennedy, and the House Ethics Committee at the time of the so-called Korea-gate scandal.”