Henry Hyde

Henry Hyde received a Presidential Medal of Freedom....on Monday

That is all.

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=7313596&nav=menu132_3_2



WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - Former Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde is extremely proud of receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

It's the nation's highest civilian award and recognizes contributions in science, the arts literature and the cause of peace and freedom.

Hyde is recovering from heart surgery at a hospital in Wheaton and couldn't make the trip to Washington DC for the ceremony at the White House.

Hyde joked today that he might slip the medallion around his neck and parade in front of a mirror every 24 hours.

Instead, President Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hyde's son, Bob.

The 83-year-old Hyde, a Republican, represented his suburban Chicago district for 32 years before retiring last year.

He watched the ceremony via satellite.

That is besides going after Clinton and kissing bush's ass.

oh and making the phrase "youthful indiscretion" a joke (he referred to an affair he had when he was in his 30's as such)

I saw that. I forgot how much of joke this stain was/is.

Henry Hyde and Cherie Snodgrass at a Chicago nightspot in the late 1960s

Ahhh, let's review!!! http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html

Fred Snodgrass, a 76-year-old Florida retiree, says he gets so upset when he watches Rep. Henry Hyde on TV that "I nearly jump out of my chair." Hyde, the Illinois Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, is on television often these days. Hyde's committee will decide whether the adulterous affair President Clinton carried on with a White House intern, and his efforts to keep it hidden, should be referred to the House of Representatives for impeachment proceedings. "I watched on TV the other night," said Snodgrass. "These politicians were going on about how he should have been on the Supreme Court, what a great man he is, how we're lucky to have him in Congress in charge of the impeachment case. And all I can think of is here is this man, this hypocrite who broke up my family."

Snodgrass says Hyde carried on a five-year sexual relationship with his then-wife, Cherie, that shattered his family. Hyde admitted to Salon Wednesday that he had been involved with Cherie Snodgrass, and that the relationship ended after Hyde's wife found out about it. At the time of the affair, which lasted from 1965 to 1969, Fred Snodgrass was a furniture salesman in Chicago, and his wife was a beauty stylist. They had three small children, two girls and a boy. Hyde, then 41 years old, was a lawyer and rising star in Republican state politics. In 1966, he was elected for the first time to the Illinois House. Hyde was married and the father of four sons. (His wife, Jeanne Hyde, died of breast cancer in 1992, after a 45-year marriage.)

"Cherie was young and naive at the time," said a Snodgrass family intimate. "She was a glamour queen with three young kids, stuck at home. Then this Prince Charming guy, Hyde, comes along. She was very impressed with him. He was 12 years older, he was a hotshot, he knew everyone downtown. She had nothing, and he comes along, shows her off, she was young and beautiful."

Alex Berke, a former jewelry businessman and 37-year member of the Chicago Board of Trade who has been a friend of Fred Snodgrass for more than 50 years, also confirmed the story of the family breakup. "I knew Fred and Cherie when they first got married," he said. "They were an ideal couple. She was tall and gorgeous and he was a handsome SOB. They made a hell of a couple. The affair between Hyde and Cherie played a hell of a bad part in Fred's life. It went on for several years. It changed his whole life. And it affected the kids too. Being a nice guy, Fred took Cherie back, but it never worked out after that. He told me all about it when it was happening. It beat the hell out of him."

Snodgrass supplied Salon with two photographs of his ex-wife with Hyde taken in the late 1960s, including one of her sitting in Hyde's lap at a Chicago night spot. Another photograph is inscribed, "I love you Cherie!!!!" and signed, "Hank, Dec. 30, 1966!" ....

So, gee, Fuck You, "Hank," you GOP skank, and Fuck Your Little Medal, too....ya baaastid!!!!

Hyde the womanizer who fought against woman's civil and reproductive rights every moment in his corrupt career while having affairs. Ooops, that was "youthful indiscretions". His show trial and ramroding of articles of impeachment against Clinton was the start of the dumbing down of the Congress that has inoculated booosh thanks to the way he mangled things.

That pantload deserves nothing but scorn for all the bad things he stood for. I wonder if his buddy, Captain Shippers also got an award.

I don't know -you are assholes that brought this up

I guess I had him confused with some other sleazy hypocrite.

such as Al Gore and his campaign concerning global warmnin. Michael Moore and his campaign to make the country of aware of lack of health insurance. But the bush administration, would never honor real heroes, just republican hacks.

Oh well. More like buying his silence. I know Hyde has the goods on more a few Repukes.

His silence was bought for a medal..

Difi sold out for a plane ride and some scrambled eggs :grr:

I hope Hyde writes a tell-all book about his experiences in Congress though. It would be a doozy.