Mr. Speaker. Christopher Columbus really was the first immigrant. so to speak. who brought with him a crew which was by no means just Italian. His team included Portuguese. Spaniards. and other adventuresome individualists. It is. therefore. fitting that Columbus is only one of two persons which our Nation has honored with a national holiday. Columbus embodies that rich national heritage of the Italians from beautiful operas to magnificent stone work inherited from the Renaissance Tuscans. ItaloAmerican contributions to our Nations culture have been far too numerous to list. However. they do range from Enrico Fermi. one of the greatest physicists in the history of man. to daily contributions in our localities by ItaloAmerican doctors. lawyers. teachers. scientists. artisansall of whom have made our society the great one that it is.
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