He was a person who understood fundamentally that the United States had a very special role to play. I was a staffer for him and remember him talking about the captive nations. That was a phrase that was used to capture the description of the Eastern Bloc nations. And you see. in Henry Hydes district. in the Sixth District of Ilinois. there were a whole host of immigrants. folks who had come to this land of America because America was free. And Henry Hyde represented that constituency well. And it was a people that had been formed largely by their suffering under a tyrannical communist regime.
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