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Norman Mineta, the secretary of transportation under President George W. Bush, and Robert Reich, the secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton, were among his Democratic allies.
Mineta and Simpson became Boy Scouts after Mineta and his family were interned as Japanese-Americans during World War II at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, which is close to Simpson’s hometown of Cody, Wyoming.
Both raised awareness of the approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans who were interned in camps during the war after leaving politics. According to Mineta, who passed away in 2022, Simpson was once asked what the main distinction was between being a Democrat and a Republican.
