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Dec 10, 2002 · WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott issued a written apology Monday evening over his comment that the United States would have avoided "all these problems"...
Dec 11, 2002 · Trent Lott, the Republican Senate leader who faces mounting criticism for his comment last week that the nation would have been better off had Strom Thurmond been elected president in 1948,...
Dec 10, 2002 · Saying that he had used ''a poor choice of words,'' Trent Lott, the Senate Republican leader, apologized tonight for his speech at the 100th birthday party of Senator Strom Thurmond,...
Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, author, and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007.
Dec 13, 2002 · Many have interpreted Lott's comment that the United States would have been better off if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 as an endorsement of Thurmond's...
Dec 11, 2002 · WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Black lawmakers Tuesday labeled as inadequate incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's apology for a comment praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential...
Dec 14, 2002 · Republican Senate leader Trent Lott offered a public apology on Friday for comments that appeared to endorse segregation.
