Carol Shea-Porter: “There is a button from an old Presidential campaign that says, ``I Like Ike.'' In this case, I love Ike. We will have to…”

“There is a button from an old Presidential campaign that says, ``I Like Ike.'' In this case, I love Ike. We will have to have a new button to talk about Ike Skelton. I arrived in the House 4 years ago on the Armed Services Committee, met Ike Skelton, and recognized immediately that he wasn't just a friend of the generals and a friend of the powerful; he was a friend to everybody. And I had the great pleasure of traveling with him. And I saw the way he treated the very, very young soldiers. And having been married to a young soldier at one time in my life, I recognized how overwhelming it was when anybody above the rank of sergeant spoke to young men and women. And here was the chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the United States of America bending over to get some words of advice from the young men and women of this country who serve us. And that has stuck with me, Ike. It's true that you are an incredible scholar, a historian. If Ike says it's so, it is so. And he often told us what was so. And he gave us lists to read and things that we should do and things that we should know. And he was always right about that. And when I traveled with him abroad, the respect that we all received because we were with Ike Skelton was absolutely impressive and overwhelming.”