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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Almost before Bob Dole had finished announcing that he will resign his from the Senate on June 11, a fierce scramble began between two Mississippi Senators over who would replace him as majority leader. Majority whip Trent Lott and Republican Conference chairman Thad Cochran have both declared their candidacy. The two men have been rivals for much of their time together in Congress, which began when both were elected to the House in 1973. They have distinctly different styles and their relationship has been exacerbated by Lott's leapfrogging the senior Cochran and beating him to the position...
...made his own bed. He's basically a man without a community now." --Johnnie Cochran, on former rival and best-selling author Christopher Darden...
...inflammatory issue of race, Shapiro has an ally in Darden. While Shapiro places the credit for the team's success mostly on his own shoulders, Darden blames the prosecution's failures on, alternately, the jurors, "12 people lined up at the grinder with big axes," and Cochran, who made it "clear that there were going to be two sides in this case, not prosecution and defense, but black and white...
Such 20/20 hindsight is still to come from the pens of Clark and Cochran. And those books, like Darden's and Shapiro's, will no doubt have one thing in common: each writer will work hard to drum up support for his team, even if doing so means dumping a little more dirt on the other...
Senator Thad Cochran [4 oinks] Republican, Mississippi -Chairman of the Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee...