A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to meet you at an Eagle ceremony for the son of a long-time friend. I, too, am an Eagle, and find myself among the one in a hundred who considers this achievement more important than his college degrees.

Watching you speak, I began to think about the Republican Party which you  represent, and which is so much different from the party of Scranton, Mathias, and Rockefeller, which is the one I registered to vote for when I turned twenty-one.

Here's how well the current Republican Party obeys the Scout Law:

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