Congressman Hoyer recalls inspiration to public service in retirement announcement

Maryland Congressman and twice Former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says in a floor speech to the House of Representatives that he nearly flunked out of college in 1958, re-enrolled the following spring when classes were canceled for a convocation on April 27, 1959, initially planned not to attend but saw the guest speaker drive up in a cool 1958 Pontiac convertible so decided to go, and that walk was their road to Damascus that changed their life because the speaker was John F. Kennedy who urged doing one's duty in days of world chaos.
Maryland Congressman and twice Former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says in a floor speech to the House of Representatives that he nearly flunked out of college in 1958, re-enrolled the following spring when classes were canceled for a convocation on April 27, 1959, initially planned not to attend but saw the guest speaker drive up in a cool 1958 Pontiac convertible so decided to go, and that walk was their road to Damascus that changed their life because the speaker was John F. Kennedy who urged doing one's duty in days of world chaos.
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