William Sarpalius: “the trip that we had occurred from October 21 through October 25. As the chairman mentioned, the trip began with a trip…”

“the trip that we had occurred from October 21 through October 25. As the chairman mentioned, the trip began with a trip to San Antonio, where we took a ride down the River Walk and toured one of the famous buildings of United States, which is the Alamo. The next day we took a private tour of the State capitol, and I might add, the people from Texas made sure is that everybody understood that that dome is a little bit taller than the one here in Washington. And we took a private tour of the governor's mansion. But being the last part of October, for some reason the governor of Texas was not there. He was out campaigning for something. Probably the highlight of the entire meeting and trip that we had was all of us went to the LBJ Library and had lunch with students there, and then we broke up into different classes. Of course, Lady Bird Johnson was there and was a tremendous hostess to us. To participate in those classes with those students and to see the brilliance of the future generations of these young people and their knowledge of politics, and not only politics in the United States, but politics around the world was extremely impressive.”