Lantos Announces Cancer Diagnosis, Retirement From The House (TPM)

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Lantos Announces Cancer Diagnosis, Retirement From The House
By Eric Kleefeld - January 2, 2008, 1:31PM

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as well as the only Holocaust survivor to ever serve in Congress, has announced that he is retiring. The 79-year old Lantos cited a serious health problem as the cause of his announcement — he has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.

"It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family, and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a member of Congress," Lantos said in a press release. "I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country."


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Very sad news.

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1. So sorry to hear that. n/t

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2. that is sad...a great guy