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...shore up her early lead, attending events in Memphis and Nashville on the weekend she lost South Carolina to Barack Obama. Clinton's appearances in Tennessee were tailored to African-American audiences; in Nashville she spoke at historically black Tennessee State University and in Memphis at an African American Church. Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton spoke at Fisk University, a historically black private institution...
...welcoming people who had AIDS. He mended an age-old rift with the Vatican by receiving Pope John Paul II in 2001?the first visit to Greece by a Pope in 1,300 years. He urged young people to come "as you are, earrings and all," and dramatically upped church attendance. Despite criticism for his sometimes shrill nationalism and willingness to meddle in politics?as when he called the Turks "Eastern barbarians" or attacked NATO's bombers of Serbia as "pawns of Satan"?he remained one of his nation's most popular figures. He was 69 and had cancer...
...testament to the sense of mission of Gordon Hinckley, his easygoing nature and his will to win broader understanding for his religion that the Mormon Church president agreed to speak to Mike Wallace in 1996. He told the tough 60 Minutes reporter, "We are not a weird people." After taking over in 1995, Hinckley traveled around the world, held telegenic celebratory events and oversaw a global expansion, during which believers outside the U.S. surpassed American Mormons for the first time, temples jumped from 49 to 120 worldwide and membership grew from 9 million to 13 million. Hinckley...
...unquantifiable achievements of Clinton's presidency: he brought whites and blacks together, after years of racial tension, even within the Democratic Party. He was the first President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. The bond he built with that community seemed unbreakable. And so it was shocking - heartbreaking - to see it shattered in South Carolina, shattered by a thoughtless, solipsistic need for victory at any cost...
...days before the South Carolina primary, Obama linked arms with Rev. Raphael G. Warnock - a representative of the younger cohort of African-American community leaders - and sang, "We Shall Overcome" before parishioners at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Warnock was careful not to issue an endorsement; nevertheless, he introduced Obama to congregants in a manner fit for a king: "Giants have stood here so we don't take this pulpit lightly, but we invited this brother because he's committed and brilliant," Warnock said. "We had to fight, bleed and die just to be able to vote," Warnock added...