See what retired Air Force Gen. John Michael Loh said in the Rapid City Journal:
Loh said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., arranged for him to meet with or speak by telephone with seven of the nine BRAC commissioners. Loh said Skinner and BRAC chairman Anthony Principi were among the commissioners he and Thune met with together. ...
Loh said Thune had his letter to the BRAC commissioners on hand the day of the vote, just in case they hadn't seen it.
"He called me when I was on the road, driving from Kentucky, to tell me about the vote," Loh said.
Thune, in recounting his own version of the conversation, joked that Loh's face should be added to those at Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
"But I said, ‘If anybody should go up there, it should be you, Sen. Thune,'" Loh said. "I am not saying this in a political way, because I am not a voter in South Dakota. But he had tenacity, persuasiveness and savvy."
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