I entered the House of Representatives six years later. in 1959. on the eve of that same young Senators bid for higher office still. It was. I recall well. a time of great promise and optimism in our land. As I look back on that period. it seems natural that our speaker and I would have been drawn together. We were both of immigrant heritagehis Irish. mine Greek. In our youth we had seen our families struggleas many of your parents and grandparents here today struggledto attain for their sons and daughters an education that would open the doors of opportunity to a better life. Both of us witnessed firsthand the effects of discrimination.
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