Mark Hatfield

Well, I have to credit my mom.

So when I was a kid, my mom worked in the United States Senate for a senator named Mark Hatfield from Oregon, and she spent-

I remember him well.

It-- Yeah, so she spent 15 years in his office, and she would come home from work, and over dinner she would give me civics lessons, like on the back of a napkin, and we would have discussions.

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A number of years ago, when Mark Hatfield was the Senator of Oregon, he visited Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and he spent a day with her at the House of the Dying.

He noticed the long lines of people, impoverished, poverty-stricken, sick.

decrepit, many of them on the verge of death.

One after another came to be treated by Mother Teresa and the Sisters of Mercy there.

And toward the end of the day, Mark Hatfield looked at Mother Teresa and he said, I just have one question to ask you.

How can you bear up under the heavy burden of all these people coming How can you possibly do that? And she said to him, my dear Senator, I'm not called to be successful.

I'm called to be faithful.

This is the part that is very easy to miss.

Eleven days after the Secretary of Defense announced that inductions were finished, on the seventh of February, nineteen seventy-three, Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the conscription of persons for service in the military forces in terms that were plain and radical.

Congress could not enact a law for the involuntary induction of anybody unless a majority of those voting in a national referendum had approved it first.

If the president decided the country's security required a draft, he would issue a proclamation saying so, and a special election would be held not less than thirty days and not more than ninety days afterward.

They count all things but loss for Christ.

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Today's message, Revived by His Spirit.

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A number of years ago, when Mark Hatfield was the senator of Oregon, he visited Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and he spent a day with her at the House of the Dying.

He noticed the long lines of people, impoverished, poverty-stricken, sick, decrepit, many of them on the verge of death.

One after another came to be treated by Mother Teresa and the Sisters of Mercy there.

And toward the end of the day, Mark Hatfield looked at Mother Teresa and he said, "I just have one question to ask you.

Born and raised in Oregon.

My political hero was, again, Mark Hatfield.

He was a two-time governor, long time, 30 years in the Senate.

And I interned for him.