not two weeks later, after withering attacks from the press, democrat dukakis brandished his defense credentials. two weeks later -- one month later, quietly without fanfare, the house and senate hastefully passed the revised 89 defense bill without the offending language. six months later george h. w. bush was elected president of the united states. on november 9, 1989, the berlin wall came down and with it the soviet union. senator pete wilson had indeed served this nation with distinction and can take a seat of honor among those who won the cold war. his washington time was coming to an end because california needed him back to restore its golden luster. thank you. [applause] >> hi. i was governor wilson's legal affairs secretary and counsel during his second term. winston churchill once observed that courage is the essential quality of human nature because without that quality, none of the other qualities of human nature can be guaranteed. pete wilson and his tenure as governor exuded courage and decisiveness of [inaudible] nature. let me give four very brief examples of this. nu
