On the recordFebruary 3, 2011
I appreciate what the Senator from Tennessee had to say about our former President, as we look upon his 100th birthday coming up this weekend and all of us pay tribute to the legacy he gave this country and the tremendous contributions he made during his time in office. We all have different remembrances of his Presidency. I was a sophomore in college when he was elected to his first term as President. It was the first election in which I had the opportunity to vote. I guess I could say I was sort of coming of age at the time he was coming on the national political stage. He had run for President 4 years earlier. I remember, as a young person, beginning to pay a little bit of attention to politics, at the time being so impressed with the attributes that characterized him personally and were primarily responsible for his tremendous success as President and for the great legacy he left behind. He was a person of strong convictions. I think he had a strength of conviction that was really appealing to a lot of Americans.
