To the contrary, he knew that peace is always a work in progress. He learned as congressman, senator, president, and every day thereafter as a private citizen ambassador that peace is not achieved by signing documents and declaring the job done. He won that honor not only because he was acknowledged even by his critics to be a brilliant foreign policy strategist, but it was far more because he earned it. It says, quote, “The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.” Richard Nixon received that title. The epitaph on President Nixon’s gravestone is a sentence from his first inaugural address. He is here today for a very special reason. One of his most important initiatives at the State Department has been the creation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights where academicians, philosophers, and ethicists advise him on human rights grounded in America’s founding principles and the principles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Rights. He is a man of faith, of the greatest patriotism and the highest principle. Mike Pompeo is a man devoted to his family. So it’s sad there’s only one thing missing, prevents it from being perfect. You have to admit, that’s quite an impressive resume. And in 2018, he was confirmed as our 70th Secretary of State. In 2017, President Trump nominated him to be the director of Central Intelligence. He was elected to the House of Representatives from Kansas in 2011, where he soon gained great respect for a reputation as one of the most diligent and astute members of the House Arms – excuse me, the House Intelligence Committee. In 1988, he returned to his mother’s home state of Kansas and began a stunningly successful business career.
In 1988 – excuse me – retiring with a rank of captain, he went on to Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He spent his active duty years, his Army years, in West Germany, and as he put it, patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He won another award for the highest achievement in engineering management. He won the award as the most distinguished cadet. The Secretary was first in his class at West Point. In fact, I have it on good authority that among the fans of glory days of Lobo basketball, a reverent hush descends upon the crowd whenever the name “Pompeo” is mentioned. He attended Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, where he was an outstanding student and athlete. But the fun of it is in introducing our honored guest, I also am welcoming him not just to the Nixon Library, but I’m welcoming him back home to Orange County. I have the great pleasure – in addition to welcoming all of you to the Nixon birthplace and library, I have the great pleasure of introducing to you an extraordinary American who is here at an extraordinary time. I’m not sure your grandfather would have recognized me. GOVERNOR WILSON: Well, thank you very much, Chris. The Richard Nixon Presidential library and Museum Consul General Avery Warmly Welcomed on First Visit to Sicily to Promote U.S.USG Medical Equipment donated to Regione Campania.Consul General Mary Avery Visits the USS Hershel Woody Williams.
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