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Alan simpson norm mineta biography
Al Simpson To Give Eulogy For His “Oldest Friend” Norm Mineta In June
On June 11, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson will give the eulogy for his lifelong friend Norman Mineta at a church in Washington, D.C.
The story of the friendship between Simpson and Mineta was not entirely typical.
The young boys met as Boy Scouts in rural Wyoming in the 1940s, but both went on to have successful careers in congressional politics on opposite sides of the aisle — Simpson as a Republican from Wyoming, Mineta as a Democrat from California.
The two men nurtured their friendship for nearly eight decades despite ideological differences, a rarity in this time of political partisanship.
What really sets their friendship apart, however, is where they met.
Simpson was born and raised as the son of a man who would later serve as the governor of Wyoming, while Mineta’s family was imprisoned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp near Simpson’s hometown of Cody – simply because of race.