Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> I know and I was about half teasing, he's a tough
> guy to figure out, other than maybe who his
> "other" friends are.

Norm's rise in the San Jose political scene was carefully orchestrated and supported by the movers and shakers in the Japanese community. He pissed those people off when he divorced Mae to marry the non-Caucasian woman. Up until he resigned as congressman to undertake lobbying for Lockheed, I firmly believed that there were only two men in the world that you could put the words "politician, honest, ethical integrity" in the same sentence with their names: Leon Panetta and Norm Mineta. I have never quite understood his rather sudden resignation from congress---but then again he resurfaced as Sec of Transportation for Dubya and naturally he favored and understood airline stuff because that is the committee he served on while in congress. Note that Rod Diridon runs his Mineta Transportation Institute at SJSU. Politics is a snake pit.
C.