Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Dead again.

[SCantiGOP]

3. "He was there when we needed him"

Quick story: We had a great Dem State Senator named Alex Sanders.
In the early 1970's, they were getting ready to approve logging permits in an ancient old growth swamp area in SC. Sanders got a recording of the Ivory billed woodpecker call from the head of the Audubon Society, headed out into the swamp and played the recording. He then reported that he heard another woodpecker answer the call.
That was enough to stop the permitting process, and eventually thousands of acres were declared as the Congaree Swamp National Monument - SC's first national park.
When the Senate session where Sanders disclosed his 'discovery' of the bird ended, several friends of Sanders approached him, and one said, "Alex, we all know that bird hasn't been in SC for decades, and may be extinct." His reply was, "Well, he was there when we needed him."
Sanders, who was Lindsey Graham's opponent when Graham won his first US Senate race, went on to become President of the College of Charleston and first Chief Justice of the SC Appeals Court.