Not Your Sweetie

Lott Decried For Part Of Salute to Thurmond

By Thomas B. Edsall
Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has provoked criticism by saying the United
States would have been better off if then-segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won
the presidency in 1948.

Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Sen. Thurmond
(R-S.C.) in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Lott said, "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."
This quote from the article made me do a doubletake:
"Senator Lott's remarks were intended to pay tribute to a remarkable man who led a remarkable life. To read anything
more into these comments is wrong."

How can you attack that? We will NEVER apologize for nothing"
Anyone who has deja vu now, please write Rick Kahn .