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And he come in there -- we were sittin' there -- and he comes in and he says,
"What in the hell are you son of a *** doin' in my office?"
So we said, "Sir, we had a nine o'clock appointment with you to talk about the redress."
And his answer to that was, "My *** government doesn't have to
apologize to any son of a ***. You understand what I'm sayin'?"
So we said, "Yes."
He says, "Then what the hell are you still sittin' here for?
I want you guys to just get the hell out of my office."
So two of them stood up and they started to walk out,
and I stayed there; and he turned around and looked at me, and he said,
"What the hell are you still doin' here?"
"Sir, I just want to thank you."
And he said, "Thank me for what? I'm not going to do a *** thing for you guys."
And I says, "No sir," I says, "I wanted to thank you because
you became a congressman right after the war ended.
and you're still a congressman. And I happen to know that you have a wound just like mine,
so when you wake up in the damn mornings, you hurt like a son of a ***."
And I says, "Sir, even with that, you take all this pain and everything,
to help run our government."
So I said, "I'd like to certainly thank you, you're a damn good man."
And as I looked at him and I could see his eyes got a little watery
and I thought to myself, "I think I've got this son of a ***."
And they announced for him to go up to the podium, and
that he has three minutes to talk against the redress bill.
So he got up -- and I was watching and
as he walked down the aisle between the seats, I saw him,
he looked up and he stopped once and he stood there for a while,
and all of a sudden he walked to the end of the row,
went down the stairs, and instead of taking a step up to the podium
he went right out the door.
And I was confused, I was sittin' up there -- what the hell is he doing?
He was supposed to talk for three minutes against the redress, and I
couldn't understand that, until I looked at... you know,
in the House there, they have all the congressmen's name and at the end of each row,
there's a blue button, there's a red button.
Red button, you're against; blue button, you're for.
I see, I looked at his name and he's voted for the redress bill.