Clinton honors Mineta at San Jose memorial
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Norm Mineta, former U.S. secretary of transportation and San Jose’s first Asian American mayor, is being laid to rest in his hometown.
“Mineta spent a lifetime trying to be a builder, not a breaker. A Uniter, not a divider,” said Clinton, who appointed Mineta as secretary of commerce in his administration—the first American of Asian ancestry to join a presidential cabinet. “Somebody who used his power to empower others, not to get more power for himself at other people’s expense.”