Dear List Members.

I thought you would benefit from reading the honorary sentiments
expressed by Bob Dolezal.


>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 18:09:33 -0700 (MST)
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>From: [log in to unmask] (robert l dolezal)
>Subject: Mo's 75th
>
>Margaret - This will be on the editorial or op-ed page of the AZ Daily
>Star this Sunday.
>
>                        Bob
>To the editor:
>
>Morris K. Udall is seventy-five years old today.
>
>Mo is dying, of complications related to Parkinson's disease.  He lies,
>mute and unmoving, in a hospital bed.   It is doubtful that he understands
>much of what happens around him.
>
>In 1961, when Jack Kennedy asked Stew Udall to head-up Interior, younger
>brother Mo won the special election and replaced Stew in the House. How
>long ago was that? Well, a rent ad appeared in the STAR declaring "Colored
>Welcome,"  the $87 billion federal budget was $3 billion in the red and the
>Republicans were screaming for fiscal responsibility - and Mo was
>thirty-nine.  He spent about $8,000 on that campaign.  He would remain in
>office thirty years.
>
>While a youngster in St. David, his attitude toward life was affected by
>the loss of an eye.  It seemed to harden his resolve.  He became an
>all-conference basketball star - a scorer -  at the U of A.  In Washington,
>he quickly led a band of freshmen in a revolutionary campaign to change the
>seniority system - and he succeeded.  He achieved power, without hurting
>others.
>
>Mo is most remembered for his advocacy of Arizona issues - the CAP one of
>the grandest - and the environment.  He listened to all sides.  He used his
>power to help those without.
>
>No one ever bought his vote, or questioned his ethics.   He was proud to be
>named "Legislator of the Year" by a national nuclear coalition the same
>year the Sierra Club gave him its "Caribou Button."
>
>He believed in government.  "There is no civilization I know of where a
>majority of the people own or could anticipate owning their own home - the
>FHA was a real winner!"
>
>Mo came within a few thousand campaign dollars and a few votes - Carter
>squeaked by in Wisconsin - from winning the 1976 Democrat presidential
>nomination.
>
>Called "a national treasure," "an institution in his own time," and "one of
>the great legislators of our time,"  many now call him America's "last true
>statesman."
>
>I miss him.
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Margaret Tuchman (55yrs, Dx 1980)- NJ-08540
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