It is to those sixtythree in particular that I direct my remarks today. as well to those who will read the history of the United States Senate in the years and decades and centuries to come. Mike Mansfield and Montana are so synonymous that it is hard to believe he was not born on some windswept prairie or in a bustling mining town. but in Greenwich Village. New York. on March 16. 1903. "I was born of immigrants in New York City." he once recalled. "among immigrants. drawn from everywhere in the world. They had one thing in common: It was a belief in the promise of America." When Mike was three years old. his mother died. and his father sent the child to Great Falls. Montana. to live with an aunt and uncle. "From the age of three. my home was a general store in Montana." Mike said. "The people who came and went were miners. farmers and cowpunchers.
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