J. Exon: “Mr. President, I do not take any pleasure at all in making the remarks that I am about to make. It would have been much…”

“Mr. President, I do not take any pleasure at all in making the remarks that I am about to make. It would have been much easier to just skip it and not say anything. But I am very much moved by the unfair attacks on the Armed Services Committee on which the four Members now in the Senate have served for a long, long time. For myself, this will be my 18th year. And I come to the floor to give my views as briefly as I can. I have no written statement, but I am speaking from my heart on this matter that I think is being glossed over. Mr. President, I have not been happy with the majority on the committee, both Democrats and Republicans, for what I feel has been a folding like an accordian into the spotlight of pressure by the press that has been brought on this particular issue. I take no pleasure in this, Mr. President, because as a veteran of World War II--and 2 years of that overseas--I was taken over there by the U.S. Navy, and they brought me back.”