Peter T. King Quotes
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
King, Peter T. Interview by Wolf Blitzer. The Situation Room, CNN, 25 Nov. 2014.
Dr. Libby worked with Enrico Fermi to create the first nuclear chain reaction to prove the feasibility of a nuclear bomb. She was the only female on the team.
The enriched nuclear fuel could be used to operationalize a nuclear bomb. Iran had a history of using illegal poison gas in the Iraq-Iran War (Both sides used chemical weapons.) Iran had a history of aiding terrorist organizations. And Iran is the only nation belonging to the UN and sighing its charter in modern history that has threatened to destroy another nation via their President whose threats had not been retracted. Iran also is a Shiite Muslim nation and is at odds with the Sunni Muslim countries of the Middle East and if the Iraqis developed a nuclear bomb, there would be a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race. If Iraq would not cease its development program under pressure from other nations, a military attack was the other option. All were indeed ugly.
Some members of Congress were asking her to step into a particular case where a young girl was dying and might only be saved by a lung transplant. There were no child lungs available and there was a rule against using an adult lung in a child. If the Secretary overruled the rule the child might survive, but them some adult would not have a lung available for transplant. The secretary refused to intervene for this reason.
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Peter Thomas King is a former American politician who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021. He represented a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County and was numbered as the 3rd and later the 2nd district.