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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/8/2012 1:31 AM, Donovan Arnold
wrote:<br>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">Personally, I
think the least (sic; less) Idaho students are taught by
Idaho <span style="RIGHT: auto" id="misspell-0"><span>politicians</span></span>
the least (sic; less) bigoted they will be and the better
they will be able to get along with the rest of the world</span></div>
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Donovan, despite that there are numerous instances where the
sentiment above is true, there is a noteworthy exception who is
insufficiently remembered these days, and is worthy of mention lest
he be forgotten too soon.<br>
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I am referring to Frank Forrester Church III, who, at age 32, was
elected from Idaho to the United States Senate in 1956. He won
re-election three times to serve the state 24 years, the only Idaho
Democrat to win such re-election. Church won a seat on the Senate
Foreign Relations committee, and later served as its chairman,
following in the footsteps of his boyhood idol, Senator William
Borah, also from Idaho.<br>
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In addition to the River of No Return Wilderness named after him,
Frank Church will be remembered for his chairmanship of the Church
Committees, which held public hearings on the extra-legal activities
of the CIA and the FBI, and which lead to legislation better
controlling foreign intelligence surveillance activities.<br>
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Church is widely quoted in regard to the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency"
title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a>: "I
don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge... I know
the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we
must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this
technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so
that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which
there is no return."<br>
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In 1976, Church sought the Democratic nomination for president.
Although he won primaries in Nebraska, Idaho, Oregon and Montana, he
withdrew in favor of the eventual nominee, former <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29"
title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> governor <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy
Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>. Church remains the only Idahoan to win a
major-party presidential primary election.<br>
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The Wikipedia article on Senator Church will expand and fill out
around the selections from it I have given here.<br>
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Ken<br>
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