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3. Thank you, Thank you....

Reply to Gabby Hayes (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 05:31 AM

Dec 2012

K&R

...for sharing this clip of Jack Brooks. Oh, yes, I remember him very well. And in this clip also is (rest his soul too) Henry Gonzalez! I watched those Oliver North hearings in 1987. And I watched many hours of Henry Gonzalez's 1 hour speeches from the well of the House on C-Span. Two of the best representatives ever from Texas in the US House.

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Longtime SE Texas US Rep. Jack Brooks dead at 89 (Dem, rode JFK's last motorcade) [View all] alp227 Dec 2012 OP

Save for a few bums that were in the vicinity, Brooks was about the last man standing graham4anything Dec 2012 #1

Ollie North still walks with a limp Gabby Hayes Dec 2012 #2

Thank you, Thank you.... ReRe Dec 2012 #3

I remember that. LuvNewcastle Dec 2012 #5

He fought for civil rights and stood up to the southern racists Adenoid_Hynkel Dec 2012 #4

He was my Congressman for the first 31 years of my life! Dustlawyer Dec 2012 #6

He used to have lunch on Sundays at my grandparents' house DollarBillHines Dec 2012 #10

Rep. Jack Brooks asked traitor col. Oliver North about a plan to suspend the Constitution... Octafish Dec 2012 #7

I can always count on you! lonestarnot Dec 2012 #9

I remember that committee session distinctly... Eleanors38 Dec 2012 #11

RIP Jack Brooks: JackRiddler Dec 2012 #8

Uproot indeed. Those malignant growths are still there, and the roots go deeper. nt Eleanors38 Dec 2012 #12

The 'Aspens,' Scooter Libby called them, in an email to Steno Judy Miller of NYT. Octafish Dec 2012 #13