Eleventh Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner Comes to Nation's Capital.

It would be difficult to imagine a better way to inaugurate the move of the annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner to Washington, D.C., than to honor entertainer and pro-life stalwart Pat Boone and to hear a laudatory speech from pro-life Vice President Richard Cheney.

To make it easier for members of Congress to attend, the 11th annual dinner, sponsored by the NRL Educational Trust Fund, was moved from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City to the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in the nation's capital. The evening could not have been any better.

One small anecdote may illustrate how enjoyable was the April 20 gathering. Needless to say, with the Vice President of the United States in attendance, there was plenty of security on hand.

But a veteran reporter called NRLC's communications department the next day to offer congratulations. The reporter had been at many such gatherings where high-ranking officials were in attendance and said that none had gone as smoothly.

Mr. Boone is best known to pro-lifers for his video, A Better Way, in which he interviewed women whose circumstances are often cited as reasons for abortion but who chose life. In the 1980s he released his pro-life song, "Let Me Live," to universal pro-life acclaim.

Mr. Boone was his usual quietly inspirational self. He has that special knack for choosing the most relevant passages from Scripture and applying their principles to our present battle against the evil of abortion in a uniquely moving way. Every time audiences hear him, they come away refreshed and renewed.

The standing ovation that greeted the Vice President was so long and sustained that Mr. Cheney quipped, "Your dinner is getting cold."