Fred M Fehsenfeld had helped build the company since 1977, from when it started collecting waste lubircant oil from mechanics and the like.

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The Koch brothers are grandsons of a Dutch immigrant who settled in tiny Quanah, Texas and saved up enough money as a printer and publisher to send his son, Fred, to M.

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Well, I'm sure you've picked up that Fred's a bit caustic.

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Look, you all know what Fred has done in his career, and that's not really what I'm going to talk about here.

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I'm want to start out by talking about when I first got to know Fred well, he and I sat together on the judiciary committee.

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My point in this, and I'm not going to go on any longer here, is that there is a lot about Fred Thompson that I don't think people really appreciate, because they know him as someone who can be an actor, and who can take the stage and command presence, and so on.

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