{"id":237542,"date":"2017-06-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=237542"},"modified":"2017-06-20T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:57:41","slug":"a-fathers-day-tribute-to-richard-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/19\/a-fathers-day-tribute-to-richard-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Father-in-Law Richard Rogers: A Real Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"RUSH: Now, folks, before we go to the break, I know a lot of you in this audience are going through major hardships in your life. I know that\u2019s something that\u2019s true every day. You know, I\u2019ve always said I love getting older. Every year I\u2019ve always thought was gonna be better than the year before, and it\u2019s always been true. There has yet… I have yet to reach that year where I say, “I wish it wasn\u2019t happening.” It\u2019s gonna happen, but it hasn\u2019t happened to me yet. I\u2019m 66. (chuckles) Now, I\u2019m actually appreciating getting older, you know, now that it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

But every day, as you get older and your friends get sick and your family gets sick, you can\u2019t avoid it. People are going through major, major hardships all the time. Many of you in this audience every day have a family member experiencing it or you are experiencing it yourself. We hear from many wonderful families facing illnesses or other tragedies; we\u2019ve heard about it during our leukemia-thons. We\u2019ve done it with the Rush Revere series, and any number of other ways that we interact with the audience here, both via the books and the radio show.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re listening right now, you may be in a hospital room. Your family may be with you or someone in your family is in the hospital. We truly do wish you peace and the strength to endure anything that you are facing and want you to know that you\u2019re not facing it alone, no matter what it may seem like. You know, life is a… I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a fascinating thing. We only get one. The older you get, the more you find out how many people — through no fault of their own; it\u2019s just the way things are — don\u2019t realize that.<\/p>\n

We only get one. The concept of do-overs happens in every aspect of life. If you do something that doesn\u2019t work, try it again. But your life? You can do do-overs within, but you only get one. And the idea of making the most of it is sometimes overwhelmed by just getting through each day. Maybe at a job you hate. You may not have a job. You may be surrounded by other people who are not happy or miserable or whatever. For some people, life is a daily endurance test, despite the fact that it\u2019s so special. It features highs, real highs, and real lows.<\/p>\n

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Richard Rogers<\/p><\/div>\n

Father\u2019s Day was yesterday, and of course we weren\u2019t here yesterday, but I want to tell you about a very special man who is the definition of strength, the kind of strength that I was just talking about: My father-in-law, Richard Rogers. He\u2019s a Naval Academy grad. He graduated in the same class as Senator McCain. He is a brilliant individual, international businessman. Many of us wonder what he actually did and for who he really worked because the places he went… He took his family all over the world. His family grew up — my wife, Kathryn, they grew up — in Hawaii, Rio de Janeiro, London, a little place in Africa called Guinea-Bissau, the Philippines.<\/p>\n

And everywhere Richard went, when the family left, something blew up. We always thought he was a CIA spook. Of course, he constantly denies it while playing his scratch cards because they never would. Well, I\u2019m halfway joking about this. But he\u2019s been all over the world working and doing incredible things. Just tough as nails, from a generation that does not complain. That\u2019s one of the most noteworthy things. He\u2019s 82. They just… That generation, there\u2019s no victimhood, there\u2019s no… They just don\u2019t complain. My generation\u2019s parents didn\u2019t complain, grandparents didn\u2019t complain. It just was.<\/p>\n

He never wants anything to be about him. Funny, provocative, serious but not to the point of putting people off. He\u2019s not perfect; he wouldn\u2019t claim to be. But watching him these past months has made me want to try even harder and to try and do better. He\u2019s like most fathers out there. He\u2019s an inspiration, he is a motivating influence, isn\u2019t aware of it half the time — and, if told, doesn\u2019t want the credit for these kind of things. But he\u2019s loved and revered by his whole family.<\/p>\n

\"\"I didn\u2019t get a chance to mention this on Friday, and I should have because it was Father\u2019s Day, and I wanted to do it today because he is like many other fathers out there. He needs to be thanked and needs be shown gratitude for all of the love and the great things that they\u2019ve taught us and shown us over the years, and it\u2019s especially noteworthy in Richard Rogers\u2019 case. I\u2019ve never run into somebody who is… He\u2019s just a man. He\u2019s just a real man. And I have admired him and loved him from about the second year I met him. I\u2019m kidding. From the get-go, from the outset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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