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Dems members say the chose to filibuster for 25 hours because it is one hour longer than the longest known filibuster in Senate history—the late Sen. Strom Thurmond??s 24-hour filibuster of a civil rights bill...
Trent Lott drew criticism last month for a statement he made in honor of Sen. Strom Thurmond??s 100th birthday. Lott essentially said that the country would be a better place if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948, the year he ran as a Dixiecrat on a pro-segregation platform. I, like many others, have trouble with Lott’s comments, but for different reasons. Lott did not go far enough...
...While America fights a war against international terrorism, it’s reassuring to know that our government consists of intelligent, tolerant individuals unlike so many prejudiced regimes abroad. Senator Strom Thurmond??s 100th birthday party last week should have debunked this notion once and for all. That a man who ran for president in 1948 as a “Dixiecrat” pledging to “stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race” should still sit in the Senate is a national disgrace. Thurmond is indeed...
...Thurmond is an old man who is leaving office not a minute too soon, but at least no politician could get away with the same racist views today. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the rescue. At Thurmond??s birthday bash last week, Lott voiced his pride that his home state of Mississippi had voted for Thurmond back in 1948. “And,” he continued, “if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either...
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