Believing in America--Why You Can Feel Good About Your Country and Yourself

Inscribed on half title page: To Dan Moll -- Best Wishes, Bud Shuster, MC

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Bud Shuster was the first GOP Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure after Republicans took control of the House in 1995 after 40 years in the minority. No Chairman of the Committee ever wielded more power than Chairman Shuster. He resigned from Congress one month after being reelected in 2001. His son Bill took his seat and later became Chairman of his Dad's old Committee, however he did not garner the respect and power of his father.

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Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster; born January 23, 1932) is an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1973 to 2001. He is best known for his advocacy of transportation projects, including Interstate 99.

Shuster was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Glassport, Pennsylvania, the son of Grace and Prather Leroy Shuster. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954, where he became a member of Sigma Chi, an M.B.A. from Duquesne University in 1960, and a Ph.D. from American University in 1967. Shuster's official congressional biography states that he served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. However, he was the author of several books, one of which was titled Believing in America published in 1983. In this book Shuster states that he was the class president at the University of Pittsburgh and was recruited by the local CIA office on campus and that this was his actual first employment. Shuster describes his role as that of infiltrating civil rights groups eerily similar to COINTELPRO operations of the FBI. Shuster claimed that communist groups were penetrating the civil rights movement to provoke the police into attacking the demonstrators who were marching for equal rights for African-Americans. He claimed communists did this to embarrass the United States in front of the world.