He should be the man standing here and talking to you as President, not me. He was the attorney general of the state of Delaware. They’d get close and tell me, “It’s going to be okay.” Even when you’re not in pain, you just want to quit.Īnd the nurses at Walter Reed Hospital would come up, they’d rub my face, they’d whisper in my ear. You don’t know what each monitor is, but you know. What I found was: You lie in the ICU - and I have not said this publicly before - and you look at the monitors, and you know if the line goes flat, you’re dead. But I look back on it, and I don’t think you nurses are nearly appreciated enough. Nothing unusual that other people haven’t gone through. (Laughter.)Īnd in between, I had a major embolism that almost killed me. I joke: The reason they went in twice to take the top of my head off is because they couldn’t find a brain the first time. Then I had the second operation they found an aneurysm on the other side of my brain. It turned out I had two cranial aneurysms, and I got rushed to a hospital in the middle of a snowstorm for a nine-and-a-half-hour operation that saved my life. And I did a very stupid thing: I got on an aircraft and I flew home. And - sorry - (takes a sip of water) - (coughs) - I swallowed wrong. I was making a speech and I had a terrible headac- (coughs) - excuse me - a terrible headache. And doctors saved their lives, but the nurses made them want to live, and cared for them every day, and knew - knew when they were ready and when they weren’t ready. My wife and daughter were killed and my boys were trapped in a vehicle for three hours when a tractor trailer hit them. If there are any angels in Heaven - (laughter) - no, no, no, I mean this sincerely from the bottom of my heart. I - are there any nurses in the room? Because if there are not, I’m going home. “Hope and history rhyme.” It is my prayer that we’re reaching one of those moments where hope and history rhyme. It goes like this - and it’s classically Irish, but it also could fit Palestinians. There’s a great poem from “The Cure at Troy” - a paragraph. That’s not the reason I did it I did it because they’re the best poets in the world. And they thought I did it because I’m Irish. senator, used to always joke with me that I was always quoting Irish poets when I was on the floor of the Senate. I - my background and the background of my family is Irish American, and we have a long history of - not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people with Great Britain and their attitude toward Irish-Catholics over the years, for 400 years.īut my colleagues, when I was a U.S. (Laughter.) She has been here twice before me.Īnd before I begin, I’d like to say that - there’s an old expression: “Hope springs eternal.” Get Involved Show submenu for “Get Involved””.The White House Show submenu for “The White House””.Office of the United States Trade Representative.Office of Science and Technology Policy.Executive Offices Show submenu for “Executive Offices””.Administration Show submenu for “Administration””.
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