Dusty Johnson: “I wonder if it isn't fair to say--there has been some harsh rhetoric here and knocking down of straw men as we have gone…”

“I wonder if it isn't fair to say--there has been some harsh rhetoric here and knocking down of straw men as we have gone about discussions this afternoon in the United States Senate relative to memorializing former President Reagan. And I wonder if it isn't fair to say that the issues that have been raised are not questioning whether to suitably and appropriately memorialize President Reagan's administration. The questions are not partisan in nature. We have memorialized Presidents of both political parties, as we always will and always should. There is no opposition, certainly, to the largest building I believe on all of Pennsylvania Avenue, America's main street, the avenue that is used for our inaugural parades, the largest building, a very prominently located building--and it has yet even to have the ceremony for its opening, but it passed by unanimous vote, the Senator tells us, in both the House and Senate; bipartisan on both sides of the aisle--but there was no resistance to memorializing in a very prominent and very focal, high focal point of our Nation's most important street an enormous building named for President Reagan.”