Opinion | I was fortunate enough to have Richard Lugar as a trusted friend

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Opinion: Treating colleagues with civility was the 'Lugar Way.' We must learn from his example.

By Sam Nunn May 1 at 5:51 PM Sam Nunn, a Democrat, represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate from 1972 to 1996.

Dick began his Senate career representing Indiana in 1977 at a time when our politics and our nation could have come apart. Over the previous four years, we’d had three presidents and four vice presidents, a presidential resignation, the installation of two vice presidents via the never-before-used 25th Amendment, and a close 1976 presidential election.

The “Nunn-Lugar” program deactivated more than 7,600 nuclear warheads and destroyed more than 2,600 nuclear missiles and their launchers. It also eliminated more than 4,100 metric tons of chemical weapons and secured dozens of Soviet-era weapons facilities, as well as weapons-usable nuclear materials. Three nations — Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan — gave up their nuclear arsenals, voluntarily removing their fingers from the nuclear trigger. None of this would have happened without Dick Lugar.

The secret to Dick’s success was his rare ability to combine strong conviction with a practical eye toward achieving results. Dick knew that a representative in Congress was elected not simply to preach his principles, but also to apply them toward improving the general welfare of both his constituents and the nation, consistent with the oath of office to preserve and protect our Constitution.

 

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ChrisCuomo That's pretty funny coming from the bozos who only provide negative news regarding repubs and conservatives

ChrisCuomo You have to be civil first.......

ChrisCuomo THANK YOU MR BARR.. FINALLY SOME INTELLIGENCE IN WASHINGTON.. DEMS DONT WANT THE TRUTH..... ITS ALL A GAME TO THEM.. I STAND WITH TRUTH.. NO MATTER WHAT PARTY... AMERICA FIRST TRUMP 2020

Today we have no one from the right that is willing to work for our nation. It all comes down to the Koch brothers and the wealthy running our nation.

The go along to get along DC crowd is the way of the Swamp

ChrisCuomo Chris Cuomo, one of your fellow antifa members is wanted by the police. please turn them and identify this domestic terrorist.

ChrisCuomo You’re one to talk.

If only Republicans knew what bipartisanship meant.

Fetishizing civility impedes justice. I could give a fuck if my electeds are nice to each other, I want them to act in the interest of the people.

Republican Liars have killed that principle.

Fake news should take its own advice.

I knew Senator Lugar - we were polar opposites but there has been no finer man and politician since

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Can someone tell Jay to chill the fuck out?

My favorite love pic can app the wall don’t tach him him is history

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