 | W. Ralph Eubanks - 2003 - 266 páginas
...into Mississippi's coded political speech at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party in December 2002. "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond...have had all these problems over all these years." "All these problems" was Senator Lott's code phrase for the factor that race now plays in American... | |
 | Greg Freeman - 2003 - 196 páginas
...platform in 1948, been elected. In Lott's own words: "I want to say this about my state (Mississippi): When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for...have had all these problems over all these years, either." Lott has been drawing heat for those remarks since he made them Dec. 5, although he has apologized... | |
 | Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer - 2003 - 353 páginas
...said, at a celebration of Senator Strom Thurmond's one hundredth birthday in December 2002. "[When Thurmond] ran for president we voted for him. We're...have had all these problems over all these years, either." What was Lott so proud of and to which problems was he referring? Senator Thurmond left little... | |
 | Joe R. Feagin, Eileen O'Brien - 2004 - 294 páginas
...segregationist, Lott said that the people of Mississippi voted for Thurmond and that "we're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead,...wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." Lott soon apologized for this and earlier remarks supportive of Thurmond, who had run under... | |
 | Peter Hart, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - 2003 - 162 páginas
...was proud that the voters of Mississippi supported Thurmond's run for president in 1948, adding that "if the rest of the country had followed our lead,...have had all these problems over all these years, either." Thurmond had run as a pro-segregation Dixiecrat. Soon after Lott made his comments, he was... | |
 | Ted Rueter - 2004 - 144 páginas
...somebody else's secretary. fine." — Barry Goldwater ( 1 964 presidential nominee) it Se9re9ation "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond...have had all these problems over all these years. either." — Trent Lott (senator from Mississippi. 1987-). at Strom Thurmond's one hundredth birthday... | |
 | Sherrod Brown - 2004 - 364 páginas
...Senator Strom Thurmond, Lott said to the assembled crowd, which included almost every GOP senator, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond...have had all these problems over all these years, either." The mostly partisan— "Republican," no longer "Dixiecrat"— audience laughed and clapped... | |
 | Alan Shipnuck - 2008 - 378 páginas
...Hootie Johnson's old friend — Senate majority leader Trent Lott offered an ill-conceived tribute: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond...have had all these problems over all these years, either." Lett's remarks touched off weeks of raging controversy and he was eventually compelled to... | |
 | John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge - 2004 - 482 páginas
...presidential candidate in 1948. "I want to say this about my state," announced the senator from Mississippi. "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for...have had all these problems over all these years, either." Lott later claimed that he was making a point about states' rights, but to any reasonable... | |
 | Michael Crane - 2004 - 652 páginas
...become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." Sen. Robert Byrd "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for...have had all these problems over all these years, either." Trent Lott "No one has inspired more blacks tor hope in America than I have." Jesse Jackson... | |
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I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."43 Who is the "we 
