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Jim Inhofe: “I always wanted to have a boy, selfishly, James Mountain Inhofe III. So we found out--and this happened a couple years…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
I always wanted to have a boy, selfishly, James Mountain Inhofe III. So we found out--and this happened a couple years ago--that in fact my daughter-in-law was unexpectedly pregnant--Jimmy's wife. I respond to the Senator that what we did is for 8 months we prayed every day it would be a boy. I figured if Abraham could do it, I could do it. Sure enough, we were up in the waiting room and the nurse came in while I was doing a 30-minute talk show with Ollie North. Right in the middle of that, she came in and said, ``Senator, how did you know? You are the only one who knew it was going to be a boy.'' I said, ``Ollie, James Mountain Inhofe III has been born.'' On the way back it occurred to me they had not yet named that child, and I announced the name on the radio. So I learned that lesson.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Sharing a personal story about the birth of his grandson during a Senate floor speech.

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