Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Economics Richard Cooper questions how much voter registration indicates a professor's political leanings...
Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds and his chief deputy, Charles Cooper, a former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, made the trip...
...first stop, Jackson began the meeting with a prayer by joining hands with Reynolds and Cooper, whose hands in turn were clasped by Black civil rights workers from Mississippi. Immediately following the prayer, Reynolds and Cooper, apparently believing the preliminaries to be over, tried to release Jackson's grip. Rather than oblige, Jackson clamped down, and began singing the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome," which, of course, was joined in by Blacks in attendance, complete with body swayings from side to side...
...Cooper and Reynolds turned purple red, but the Justice official, having announced the trip by citing Bobby Kennedy's visit to the same region 20 years earlier, could hardly be seen on camera struggling to free himself form Jackson's embrace...
...second verse, the two chalked-faced officials, at least, were mouthing some of the words. Later, Cooper told me the episode had been the most embarrassing of his entire life. "I kept thinking," he said, "What will my friends think when they see this...