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Montana’s longest serving senator and the former U.S. ambassador to China reflects on today’s political climate from the ‘radical middle’.

BY TODD WILKINSON

The elder American statesman, looking deceptively younger than the mileage on his political odometer, strides forth in a flannel shirt, jeans and running shoes.

All week he’s been appearing on national television news programs.

In 1946, Max's mother married John J. Baucus, who later adopted Max and his sister.

Max Baucus is an American politician and diplomat.

In temperament and disposition, Miles says, Baucus is a reflection of his mother Jean and adopted father John.

Wichman wound up in Winifred as a foster child of Gordon and Mary Wichman, who adopted him a couple of years ago.

This is the story about a Chinese couple's unrelenting search for their daughter.

In the hours of this early March day still to come, Max Baucus will be interviewed by more talking heads in New York and Washington, that distant capital city where he wielded tremendous power and clout.

Now, as he turns off a Main Street sidewalk, slipping into the lobby of the Baxter Hotel, few in Bozeman, Montana, appear to immediately recognize him.

For the first time since 1972, he is no longer a man with a formal political title attached to his name—not “Ambassador,” “U.S. Senator” or “Congressman,” state legislator, or even candidate Baucus. He is in a new unfamiliar