Patrick Leahy: “Mr. President if I might add, I saw the same picture. Actually, Henry Thomas Daschle is better looking than our…”

“Mr. President if I might add, I saw the same picture. Actually, Henry Thomas Daschle is better looking than our distinguished majority leader. We have so often rancorous debate, we are always so busy, it seems our dear friend, the senior Senator from West Virginia, knows best when to come to the floor and bring us back to the human side of the Senate. He, knowing the Senate better than all of us, brings us back to the human side with poetry. My late mother used to read the Congressional Record every day looking for poems by Robert Carlyle Byrd. And today to have those who are grandparents, as Senator Reid, the distinguished senior Senator from Nevada said, to pass on this wisdom to our majority leader. He is going to get this wisdom from us about being grandparents whether he wants it or not, but we will pass it on. It is the most wonderful time of your life. This will be the first of two this year, and that makes it even better. I might say to my dear friend, the majority leader, this is a very fortunate grandchild to have him as the grandfather, just as the parents are very fortunate to have Tom and Linda Daschle to love and help this child.”