Temeck "was of such strong will that she never gave up her fight to restore her name and reputation. She hoped someday to return to her work at the VA.”
Dusing said, "Her outer frailty, hardly the image of strength, belied a ferocious inner commitment to the mission of the VA and to the principles she believed in. Which was, above all, truth.”
“Money meant nothing to her,” Sams said. “She didn’t have anything. She was a person who had no interest in material things. I think that’s what people, they weren’t banking on that. This was an expensive fight. Between (the criminal trial) and the extremely good work done by Hawley, it was way up there.”