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Bono, Condoleezza Rice among those to honor Rep. Lantos
Thursday, February 14, 2008
(02-14) 05:18 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress before his death from cancer this week, is being honored by a long list of luminaries at the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
Tributes are to be delivered Thursday morning by Bono, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the secretary-general of the United Nations, the foreign minister of Israel and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel — among others.
Lantos, a San Francisco-area Democrat and native of Hungary who as a teenager twice escaped Nazi labor camps, was serving his 14th term. He died at age 80 Monday morning, little more than a month after disclosing he'd been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
Lantos chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee and advocated for human rights worldwide.
a little late for this but maybe they will show it again:
Lantos ceremony Thursday will be streamed on Web
From staff reports
A ceremony to commemorate the life of the late U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos will be streamed live at 7 a.m. local time Thursday at www.foreignaffairs.house.gov.
The ceremony at Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. is scheduled to include speeches by Lantos' wife Annette as well as other family members, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the rock star Bono among others.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
(02-14) 05:18 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress before his death from cancer this week, is being honored by a long list of luminaries at the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
Tributes are to be delivered Thursday morning by Bono, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the secretary-general of the United Nations, the foreign minister of Israel and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel — among others.
Lantos, a San Francisco-area Democrat and native of Hungary who as a teenager twice escaped Nazi labor camps, was serving his 14th term. He died at age 80 Monday morning, little more than a month after disclosing he'd been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
Lantos chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee and advocated for human rights worldwide.
a little late for this but maybe they will show it again:
Lantos ceremony Thursday will be streamed on Web
From staff reports
A ceremony to commemorate the life of the late U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos will be streamed live at 7 a.m. local time Thursday at www.foreignaffairs.house.gov.
The ceremony at Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. is scheduled to include speeches by Lantos' wife Annette as well as other family members, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the rock star Bono among others.
