But a very distinguished person will be leaving this Chamber. I just wanted to say a word about him, a man called William Clinger from Warren, PA. He is the type of person that represents the finest this Chamber has to offer. He is a thoughtful man; not a thoughtful man, but a thoughtful man, a man with a precise concept of the significant, somebody who is always there, always decent. You know we have got a lot of discordant sounds around here. People are unhappy with the lack of comity. It is not just words we say about bringing people together, it is example, and if there is one thing that will be left in our memory, my memory certainly, it is the example of William Clinger in terms of representing the decency and the concept and the verve of this place the way it should be played under any circumstance.
Amory Houghton: “But a very distinguished person will be leaving this Chamber. I just wanted to say a word about him, a man called…”
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Paying tribute to William Clinger as the 104th Congress comes to a close.
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