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Iowa State Library event, welcome from Bruce Braley

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Hi, I want to welcome the entire Mezvinsky family

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to Ames, and I want to congratulate my friend and

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former Congressman Ed Mezvinsky on the great honor

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of having his papers being housed at Iowa State

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University, which is a very, very special place to

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me, my wife, Carolyn, and our family. I met my

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wife and I was state and I was a student at Iowa

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State when I got to vote for the first time in

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nineteen seventy six. That was the first

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opportunity I had to vote for a member of Congress

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and the member that I voted for was Ed Mezvinsky.

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Ed, as you all know, was a great athlete at Ames

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High School. He played on the state championship

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basketball team, ran on the state championship

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track team, and I sent him a picture of him and

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his nineteen fifty five Ames high basketball

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uniform when short shorts were really short shorts.

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But Ed, I'm very, very glad that you have this

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opportunity to celebrate with your family,

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particularly your great work during the period

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leading up to Watergate when you served on the

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House Judiciary Committee. I know that Watergate

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had a profound impact on my life. It was one of

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the reasons I went into journalism as a student at

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Iowa State University. It's another reason that I

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went to law school to make sure that I was doing

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what I could to try to provide a balance and a

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voice to people who needed one. You have given us

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a great reason to celebrate this moment, and we

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wish you all the best of luck. And thanks again

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for returning these papers to Iowa State, where

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they will be a big part of the legacy of the

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university. And your time in Congress said

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congratulations.

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