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...into John Edwards's own part of the country, and surrounded by working people the candidate caught fire on their behalf. "James told us how grateful he was to be able to talk - something he has spent almost all his life not being able to do," Edwards said in Prestonburg, Kentucky, later that day, at the big rally that ended his tour in the same place where Senator Robert F. Kennedy finished his own poverty tour 40 years ago. "Instead of being angry about it, James was proud. He was strong. He showed the kind of character that I think...
...politics are entering a new populist phase, Edwards isn't about to be left behind. On Wednesday in Prestonburg, the same day Barack Obama was delivering a speech on urban poverty, Edwards went after the fat cats in his own income bracket with real fervor. "We have the greatest economic inequality we've had in America since the great Depression," he said. "We're now made up of a few rich people who are doing extremely well and everybody else. Washington's response has been 'Greed is good. Take care of the lobbyists. Take care of the special interests.' There...
...defrauding the government by accepting $53,000 in bribes from Munitions Makers Murray and Henry Garsson, served nine months and 13 days of his sentence, protested his innocence to the end, although some of the nation's top brass (including General Dwight Eisenhower) testified against him; in Prestonburg...
Kentucky's ex-Representative Andrew Jackson May, just out of Federal prison after-serving nine months and 13 days on a bribery charge, was in a charitable mood as neighbors and friends gathered on his front porch in Prestonburg to greet him. Said he: "Although I am innocent and was made to suffer through persecution, I am not embittered...
...Jackson May had accepted $53,000 from the notorious Garsson brothers in return for pressuring through their munitions contracts, had used his power to render many another shady service to his friends. This week he was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Ashland, Ky., and headed home to Prestonburg, after serving nine months and 13 days of an eight-to-24-month sentence. Grounds for the parole: good behavior, bad health...