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...Former majority leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, expresses sympathy with Reid's predicament. "I know for a fact that the toughest job in this city is majority leader," says Lott, who knows firsthand the threat of ambitious underlings. After he made indelicate remarks praising Strom Thurmond's segregationist bid for the White House, they were quick to force him out as majority leader. "There's always pressure on you from within your own party and across the aisle. So he's juggling a lot of balls, he's got a very tough job, and it doesn't help...
...Practiced law from 1972 to 2001, including a stint as a deputy counsel at the Energy Department under President Ronald Reagan. Also worked as an aide to both Representative Floyd Spence and Senator Strom Thurmond...
...Sometimes these things just go on. These are heroes of mine. I really hope these would be heroes to future generations of Americans. [The stories] are ... a way to diminish their contributions to our country's existence." - Complaining of negative media attention toward affairs conducted by Strom Thurmond and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom fathered children out of wedlock with African-American women (the State...
...committee. "I'm a conservative, but this could be the most devastating thing our state has ever seen." To Sanford, Leatherman is a fraudulent Republican franchisee, but to most Republicans in the legislature, the governor is the one tarnishing the brand. "Most of us are Ronald Reagan Republicans, Strom Thurmond Republicans," grumbles Senate majority leader Harvey Peeler. "Republicans control everything around here. It would be nice if we could accomplish something...
...March of 1956—just months before Edward M. Kennedy graduated from Harvard College—96 members of the United States House of Representatives ratified the Southern Manifesto, a document drafted by the late Senator Strom Thurmond that labeled the racial integration of Southern schools a “clear abuse of judicial power.” A glimpse at today’s newspapers, plastered as many of them are with pictures and coverage of America’s first black President-elect, reveals exactly how much has changed in the 52 intervening years. Much of that...