Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I would like to pay tribute to a great American public servant and Texan, Ms. Dora Margaret Samudio. Ms. Samudio is retiring after 50 years of dedicated Federal service. Dora was born on October 1, 1945. After she graduated from Sam Houston High School in 1963, Dora began her distinguished Federal career with the Texas State Department of Public Welfare. Shortly thereafter, she became a clerk typist at the U.S. Army Medical Field Service School in Fort Sam Houston, TX. In September 1969, in the midst of the Vietnam war, Dora left her native Texas to pursue a career in Washington, DC. For the next year, she worked for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command in the Surgeon General's office until she moved to the War Plans Division at the Pentagon in 1970. At the Pentagon, Dora served as a stenographer with the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations. She then transferred to the litigation division, where she worked for the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General. Dora was responsible for gathering Army witnesses from all over the world to testify in Federal court and kept records of collateral Army aircraft accidents in Vietnam. In 1972, she began working for the U.S. Army Court of Military Review in Falls Church, VA. Dora briefly left Federal service to work at Williams, Connall & Califano in Washington, DC, and at Robinson, Robinson & Cole in Hartford, CT.…”