Cord Byrd: “a long time ago, I was a boy in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. My coal miner dad bought a fiddle for me.…”

“a long time ago, I was a boy in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. My coal miner dad bought a fiddle for me. There was a lad in that coal mining community named Emanuel Manchini. I remember that little boy and his family. In those coal camps were Hungarian families, Czechoslovakians, Germans, Scotch, Italians, and Greeks. This little boy, Emanuel Manchini, also had a fiddle. We took lessons together at the high school. So I have often listened to and looked at my friend here--this man of Roman stock. My, what a heritage he has. I don't know where his forbears may have originated--whether it was in the Apennines Mountains, or along the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea, or the Adriatic or the Po Valleys, or on the boot of Italy. But there were stalwart people in that Roman Senate. I often speak to Senator Domenici about the Roman Senate; what a great Senate. Again, I refer to Majorian, the Emperor of the West in 457 A.D. As he was being made Emperor, he said he was ``a prince who still glories in the name of `Senator'.'' I thank the Senator for his reminiscing time. I also thank the Senator from Nevada. I have been blessed by serving with both of these Senators.”