Duncan Faircloth: “I note that all 100 Senators have joined me as cosponsors of this resolution. This resolution is to honor a truly great…”

“I note that all 100 Senators have joined me as cosponsors of this resolution. This resolution is to honor a truly great American and a great North Carolinian, former Senator Terry Sanford, a man I knew since I was about 18, 19 years old. In fact, I joined him in managing the campaign for a candidate for Governor, a man named Kerr Scott, and with that election we changed the direction of politics in North Carolina. We had a long friendship. As I say, it began with that campaign, and we went through many political campaigns together. He had a remarkable life. He managed two or three senatorial campaigns on which I had the pleasure of working with him. Prior to that, Terry Sanford graduated from the University of North Carolina in the late thirties. During World War II, he was an FBI agent in the early part of the war, in the very beginning, but being an FBI agent was not exciting enough for Terry Sanford. He chose to join the 82nd Airborne and became an officer and a paratrooper. He was involved in five different battles during World War II, and he won the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. Terry Sanford was always a paratrooper. He was ready to go for it. He was ready to jump into the middle of whatever might be happening.”