House Proceeding 04-28-09 on Apr 28th, 2009 :: 1:51:35 to 1:54:20
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Dan Burton: time as he may consume to the gentleman from indiana, mr. burton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. burton: i gentlewoman for yielding yielding. i thank my good colleague over ere who is a great golfer for introducing this resolution. and my colleague from pennsylvania. one of the things i'll just say at the outset is i envy you because had you a chance to play

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Speech By: Dan Burton

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Dan Burton: golf with him. tom ridge, our former colleague, promised me when he became governor he was going to arrange for me to play with arnold palmer and he never did it. when you see governor ridge, would you tell him i'm still disappointed about that. would you do that for me? thank you. be sure to tell him. let's been a lot said about arnold palmer today. i'm not going to be redundant

1:52:14 to 1:52:36( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Burton: and go over the things that have been said. but will i tell you this, that i have been an avid golfer and followed golf all of my life since i was 12. and there is nobody that i know that brought golf from a minor sport into the major areason why like arnold palmer did. we had a guy from indiana named

1:52:37 to 1:52:58( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Burton: fred wamp letter, on the front page of the indnapoliser star newspaper they had a picture of him with a check for $5,000. he was holding it up like m gosh isn't this a tremendous amount of money, $5,000. when arnold palmer came on the scene and started making the great comebacks he did in the masters and u.s. open and the p.g.a. and the british open he

1:52:59 to 1:53:19( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Burton: brought a new attitude to golf. a new sensation to golf. and you talked about arnie's army. people across the country who didn't play golf, who weren't interested in the sport, became interested because here was a guy you would see on television coming down to the 16th or 17th hole two shots behind and you knew he was going to be there at the end. he was a lot like tiger woods is today.

1:53:20 to 1:53:41( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Burton: he would knock in a putt at the 16th or 17th hole and everybody would go crazy. he would win the tournament in the last one. we have seen tiger woods do that. so arnold palmer was the tiger woods of his day. he made golf a tremendous sport, a spectator sport. he made it into something that every american is now interested in.

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Dan Burton: he did a lot of humanitarian things. i know you mentioned a while ago his involvement with chiren and the march of dimes and prostate cancer. did he all of those things. but none of that would have occurred if he hadn't had the personality and charisma he showed on the golf course all those years. we had great pyers like

1:54:03 to 1:54:21( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Burton: nichlas and trevino and whole host that played with him, but palmer was the man, he was the guy we watched on sunday afternoon and couldn't wait to get to the tv set to cheer on. and i'm tickled to death that you're moving this medal of honor for him. i am very happy to add my two