interesting overlap, and we'll have to talk more about this -- it was actually lyndon johnson and sam rayburn, young congressman at the time, who saved bessie and her boss, larry fly, when rayburn and lbj got word that this congressman was going to be asking her boss publicly, in congress, about their affair which was to be alleged to be costing the government honeymoon trips, the word got back through lbj and sam rayburn, quote: there anticipate going to be no sex in -- there ain't going to be no sex in this investigation. there's too damn many of us that are vulnerable on that score, end quote. [laughter] [applause] so the investigation and the romance had other repercussions including what i think may have cost her a federal judgeship. she had other challenges including her age which was really a more gender and age combination because although a young white house staffer said that her age, 58, might tend to disqualify her from consideration for a federal judgeship, she watched as men were placed into 15 federal judicial vacancies and 6 of them were older than she was. so lots of challenge

just a few years before that, his name was michael rayburn, my partner's name, sam hicks, just a few years before that, rayburn saved my life. i was directing traffic just south of seattle. pretty major accident. i had my back turned to the ditch behind me and deputy rayburn and drove off and just at the moment, somebody had a knife in his hand and buried that knife in my back. mike rayburn was there just in the nick of time and tackled that man who was about to stab me. two years later, mike rayburn was dead. and his kids grew up without their father. 'm here tonight to honor them. i'm here tonight to honor every . lice officer in this country and i'm here tonight, mr. speaker, to ask people across the nation to go say thank you to the police officers that protect their community, protect their children, protect their homes each and every day. and i'll be there on sunday at the memorial in front of the capitol to be with those families. i've held the widows in my arms as the sheriff. i have held the children who cried. we will be doing it again on sunday. i yield back. the speaker pr