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Those looking to support a good cause could find themselves having lunch with the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, reading a signed copy of Hillary Rodham Clinton's "It Takes a Village" or drinking from old-fashioned bar glasses with Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.)--as long as they are willing...
...early, tentative payoff. For once, no one's lips are forming the words "dead on arrival" to describe the President's plan. But they are guarded. "I'm not sure he has the political stroke yet to get done what he knows has to get done," Senate majority leader Trent Lott told TIME. "I know the budget they're sending up here next week will not be as honest and will have more gimmicks in it than he wanted...
Last Sunday's New York Times Magazine featured a cover story on Trent Lott, the Republican Senate majority leader from Mississippi, in which Lott is described as "gracious and conservative," though the writer warns that he may have trouble managing his more partisan colleagues. Lott may not have the ideological fire to satisfy the right wing of his party; instead, he is perhaps better characterized as a pragmatist...
Nelson claims that Trent Lott aided the Sovereignty Commission during the 1960s and is probably classified in the lawsuit as a state actor, a member or informant who served as a source of information. If these allegations are true. Trent Lott is a white supremacist--or at least he used to be. The Times article states that as late as 1983, Lott opposed the creation of a national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr." The Daily News editorial says that Lott "praises--as [he] is warmly praised by--the Council of Conservative Citizens, widely regarded as the successor...
However, even if Trent Lott's association with a hate group is proved, his image as a genial, even "gracious" politician will probably not suffer much damage, at least not in the South. The early, Klan membership of Sen. Robert, Byrd (D, W.Va.) has not hurt his career. The Sovereignty Commission agent who is indirectly responsible for the murder of the three civil rights activists in 1964 is now a staff member for Rep. Mike Parker, another Mississippi Republican. Even the two old and grizzled, foes of racial equality, Jesse Helms (R, N.C.) and Strom Thurmond (R, S.C.), continue...