Willie Hefner: “I just want to bring back something that happened a few years ago when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States…”

“I just want to bring back something that happened a few years ago when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, and we lost 240 men in their sleep in Lebanon. We were in real secret negotiations and hearings upstairs in this Capitol, it was so secret. We had Navy people there, and we had these people, they had been informed there were three pickup loads of explosives in the area, and nobody acted on that. We did not blame President Reagan for being derelict of duty in that, because that was in Lebanon. We lost 240 Marines in Lebanon. Mr. Speaker, it just seems that everybody is in the mood here, anything that happens in the world is a problem of the President of the United States. Mr. Speaker, down here in the well yesterday, one day last week, the gentleman from Pennsylvania said if we lose one person, if we lose one person in Iraq, we are going to hold the President of the United States to blame for losing that one person. Mr. Speaker, to me this is going a little bit far.”