Word: trent
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George W. Bush issued a stern rebuke to Senator Trent Lott in December for his praise of the segregationist 1948 presidential bid of Strom Thurmond. But Bush has revived a practice of paying homage to an even greater champion of the Confederacy--Jefferson Davis. Last Memorial Day, for the second year in a row, Bush's White House sent a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Six days later, as the United Daughters of the Confederacy celebrated Jefferson Davis' birthday there, Washington chapter president Vicki Heilig offered a "word of gratitude to George W. Bush...
...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...
...liberalism has led this country down the wrong path at every turn. Trent Lott’s premise was right: the world would be better if it had more Strom Thurmonds in positions of power to champion conservative values. But there is hope. President Bush has not let conservatives like me down yet. He supports model institutions like Bob Jones University, model citizens like the loving preacher the Rev. Jerry Falwell and model memorials to the last true American gentlemen—the Confederate war heroes. So don’t lose hope. Just as liberalism is the history...
Many messages reflected current world issues, with calls for disarmament, peace and an end to the global AIDS epidemic, while others noted continuing racial inequality in America amid controversies over affirmative action in education and Sen. Trent Lott’s past support of segregation...
...federal appellate judgeship a clever feint by George Bush? That's what many Senate Democrats now think. Bush announced last week that he will send Pickering's name back to the Senate for an appeals-court seat in New Orleans. The conservative Mississippi judge, strongly backed by Senator Trent Lott, was nominated last year but blocked by Democrats over questions about his civil-rights record, including a 1959 law-review article he wrote opposing interracial marriage. Why would President Bush revisit that battle so soon after Lott resigned as majority leader over racially loaded remarks, particularly knowing the other side...