![]() “Yesterday was National Poetry Day, and so perhaps it’s appropriate for me today to quote a couple of poets, the first being Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who said ‘lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.’ I was honored as a college student to go door to door for Senator Cochran during that 1972 campaign. “Senator Alexander mentioned that campaign in 1968, and then he mentioned that he was a candidate for Congress in - successfully - in 1972. But, it just points out how long Senator Thad Cochran and I have been friends, how long our families have been friends, and how well associated we’ve been down through the years. So, while we were both born in the delivery room of the Rayburn Clinic, that clinic itself had moved. It turns out we found out later from our moms that the Rayburn Clinic had moved down the street. Now, during a campaign some years later in 1994, when I was first trying to be a member of the House of Representatives, Senator Thad Cochran and I went around the northern part of the state and told many, many people that he and I were born not only in the same town and not only in the same clinic, but born in the same room – the delivery room of the Rayburn Clinic. Some 13.5 years later, I was born in the delivery room of the Rayburn Clinic in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He was born in the delivery room of the Rayburn Clinic. “Back in December of 1937, Thad Cochran was born in the little town of Pontotoc, Mississippi, population 1,832. ![]() Thad Cochran, R-Miss., who will retire from the Senate on April 1 after faithfully serving Mississippi in Congress for the past 45 years.īelow is a transcript of Sen. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today delivered a Senate address honoring his friend and colleague, Sen. ![]()
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