T. Gorton: “When this Congress adjourns in a few short hours, however, we will be losing one of those Senators, Dan Coats. Dan Coats…”

“When this Congress adjourns in a few short hours, however, we will be losing one of those Senators, Dan Coats. Dan Coats has grown in wisdom and in the respect that his fellow Senators have for him in each of the 10 years during which he has served in the Senate--10 years that seem to me, in retrospect, to be all too short. With Dan Coats, what you see is what you get, a man who lives and defends and projects solid American values, a love of family, a love of country, a love of God, a man who works hard, a man whose convictions are strong and unshakeable but who combines with those convictions a willingness to listen to views different from his own and to reach accommodations on matters of policy when those accommodations do not shake his solid philosophical foundation. During the course of his 10 years in the Senate, Dan Coats has become a good friend.”