Senator Joe Manchin
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And when you go up there, that's really going to the woodshed, if you will.
And we were talking and everything.
And I said, Mr. President, I can't get there.
I really can't get there, sir.
And I said, you know, you and I are both at the same vintage.
You're a little bit older, but not that much.
And I said, we're in the same vintage.
And I said, I remember very vividly as a 13-year-old kid watching television, inauguration 1906 of John Kennedy, asked all what your country can do for you, what you can do for your country.
If we pass this piece of legislation you're asking me to vote for, the BBB, you're changing the psychic to the nation of how much more can my country do for me.
I wasn't born that way.
I wasn't raised that way.
I don't believe that way, and I can't do it.
You can put a gun to my head and say, I'm going to pull the trigger.
I can't vote for it.
And then all hell broke loose after that.
So how it happened is this.
My grandmother took everybody in.
Okay, we lived by the railroad tracks, between the creek and the railroad tracks in a little three-room garage apartment.
And my grandparents had a little home right beside us.
She took everybody in.