NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I just think this is a vital point to bring up, and I thank the gentleman from California in bringing it up. In all…”

“I just think this is a vital point to bring up, and I thank the gentleman from California in bringing it up. In all candor, Mr. Speaker, I thank the Secretary of Defense for being equally candid to tell us that today we are vulnerable to a missile attack from anyone anywhere in the world, a rogue nation, a leader gone mad, one of the folks or one of the nations which we would feel would be our conventional adversary, if you will. We are unprepared. I would simply remark that Mark Twain said it first and said it best. "History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." And here we have a parallel in our history where we need to be warned not to scare people but to alert people to a threat to our common defense, and one that we have the technology to solve if we but bring the willpower to solve it. And the executive branch, quite frankly, this administration, as custodian of our foreign policy and as custodian of our defense policy has been lackluster at best.”