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<DIV>Ken’s response is so timely. We are fortunate that not all
Idaho politicians are/were self-serving bigots. Frank Church’s ethical
stance on the Panama Canal cost him his final Senate race. He lost to
Steve Symns and I cried all the way to school the next day. Shirley Ringo
has proven time and time again her ethics are unassailable. She is a true
ombudsman and the many who turn to her for help are so very grateful for that
assistance. Ed Williams was a staunch defender of human and
civil rights. His untimely death was Idaho’s loss. Gary Schroeder
protected public education from so many bad bills, I’m sure we all lost count.
Remember, his newly reminted party members took him out. Kids don’t count with
them, regardless of the mantra banded about by Tom Luna.
Norma Dobler stood tall against those who would ride roughshod over human
rights. The Idaho Women’s Commission was her legacy. Gone now, of
course. Tom Trail defended his constituents regardless of
party and it cost him his job. Ron Bietelspacher, Cecil Andrus,
Robert Smiley, Cy Chase, John Barker, Doc Lucas...the list of honorable
Idaho politicans goes on and on. In many ways we have been so very
fortunate. The list of really dishonorable politicians..well yes, we have
those, too, led by Mr. Thievery himself, Phil Hart. </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=kmmos1@frontier.com
href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">Kenneth Marcy</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:03 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Frank Church (was: IB
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 8/8/2012 1:31 AM, Donovan Arnold wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>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><BR>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><BR>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><BR>Church is widely quoted in regard to the <A
title="National Security Agency"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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><BR>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 title="Georgia (U.S. state)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29">Georgia</A>
governor <A title="Jimmy
Carter"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter">Jimmy Carter</A>. Church
remains the only Idahoan to win a major-party presidential primary
election.<BR><BR>The Wikipedia article on Senator Church will expand and fill
out around the selections from it I have given here.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR>
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