【正文】 l, and professional Judge Thomas was made chair of the EEOC, I needed to face the question of whether to go with was asked to do so, and I work itself was interesting, and at that time it appeared that the sexual overtures which had so troubled me had also faced the realistic fact that I had no alternative I might have gone back to private practice, perhaps in my old firm or at another, I was dedicated to civil rights work, and my first choice was to be in that , the Department of Education itself was a dubious Reagan was seeking to abolish the entire my first months at the EEOC, where I continued to be an assistant to Judge Thomas, there were no sexual conversations or , during the fall and winter of 1982, these began ments were random and ranged from pressing me about why I didn39。s name is Irma is also a farmer and a childhood was one of a lot of hard work and not much money, but it was one of solid family affection, as represented by my was reared in a religious atmosphere in the Baptist faith, and I have been a member of the Antioch Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, since is a very warm part of my life at the present my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in am attaching to this statement a copy of my resume for further details of my Biden: It will be included in the record as if : Thank graduated from the university with academic honors and proceeded to the Yale Law School, where I received my JD degree in graduation from law school, I became a practicing lawyer with the Washington, DC, firm of Ward, Hardraker, and 1981, I was introduced to now Judge Thomas by a mutual Thomas told me that he was anticipating a political appointment, and he asked if I would be interested in working with was, in fact, appointed as Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil he wasAfter he had taken that post, he asked if I would bee his assistant, and I accepted that my early period there, I had two major first was an article I wrote for Judge Thomas39。ve had minimal contacts with Judge Clarence Thomas am of course aware from the Press that some questions have been raised about conversations I had with Judge Clarence Thomas after I left the 1983 until today, I have seen Judge Thomas only one occasion, I needed to get a reference from him, and on another he made a public appearance in one occasion he called me at home and we had an inconsequential one occasion he called me without reaching me, and I returned the call without reaching him, and nothing came of have, on at least three occasions, been asked to [act] as a conduit to him for knew his secretary, Diane had worked together at both EEOC and were occasions on which I spoke to her, and on some of these occasions undoubtedly I passed on some casual ment to then Chairman were a series of calls in the first three months of 1985, occasioned by a group in Tulsa, which wished to have a civil rights wanted Judge Thomas to be the speaker and enlisted my assistance for this did call in January and February to no effect, and finally suggested to the person directly involved, Susan Cahall, that she put thethat she put the matter into her own hands and call did so in March of connection with that March invitation, wanted conference materials for the seminar and some research was was asked to try to get the information and did attempt to do was another call about another possible conference in the July of August of 1987, I was in Washington, I did call Diane the course of this conversation, she asked me how long I was going to be in town and I told is recorded in the message as August was, in fact, August told me about Judge Thomas39。 by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten。ve been toldGeorge Marshall announced the creation of what would bee known as the Marshall precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display memorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall was struck by a signthe sign on a burntout, gutted structure that was being understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the sign read simply: “The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world.” A strong, free world in the Westthat dream became rose from ruin to bee an economic , France, Belgiumvirtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth。 From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on the Soviets may have had other my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn39。s efforts to help overe these be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet , we must maintain defenses of unassailable we seek peace。we are armed because we mistrust each our differences are not about weapons but about President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled。ve done so in spite of threatsthe Soviet attempts to impose the Eastmark, the the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this keeps you here? Certainly there39。s one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spraypainted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner(quote):“This wall will bee reality.”Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall, for it cannot withstand faith。citizens in the building going about their daily busine