00:00He would be dead by June.
00:02Okay, that wasn't public, but yeah, okay.
00:04It was grim, that's what I was going to say.
00:07And death is very bad when you're the speaker and you have a majority of two or three.
00:13But we had a death and then we had another death and we had some things and it's...
00:19But we're looking very strong.
00:21We had one man who was very ill.
00:23It looked like he wasn't going to make it.
00:25I don't know.
00:25I won't mention his name.
00:27Should I?
00:28Do other people know his name?
00:30Do you want to mention it?
00:31He'll be proud.
00:33Go ahead.
00:33Tell him this story.
00:35Okay, well, thank you, Mr. President.
00:38Congressman Neal Dunn of Florida had had some real health challenges and it was very serious
00:42and had had a pretty grim diagnosis.
00:45And I mentioned it to the President and I said, Congressman Dunn is a real champion and a patriot
00:50because he's still coming to work.
00:51And if others got this diagnosis, they would be apt to go home and retire.
00:54What was the diagnosis?
00:56It was, I mean, I think it was a terminal diagnosis.
00:58He would be dead by June.
01:00Okay, that wasn't public.
01:02But yeah, okay.
01:02That's, it was grim.
01:04That's what I was going to say.
01:06I don't think...
01:07With a heart problem, by the way.
01:08This was a heart problem.
01:10So, long story short, the President called him to encourage him and thank him and they
01:14had a conversation.
01:15And the President mentioned in the course of the conversation, you know how to get my
01:18doctors involved and they did.
01:20And within a, within a number of hours, they took him to Walter Reed, emergency surgery.
01:25The man has a new lease on life.
01:27He acts like he's 30 years younger and he walked into the conference meeting and we thought
01:30we'd seen a ghost.
01:31And I spoke with him over the weekend and he's encouraged and thankful and he thanks the
01:35President for his leadership and intervention.
01:37And thank you.
01:38He actually called Mike.
01:40Mike called me and he said, sir, we're up by three, but we're going to lose one by June.
01:45And he said, who, Neil Dunn, he's a great congressman.
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