Trent Lott
Dec. 20th, 2002 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisDecember 20, 2002, 8:05 a.m.
Trent Lott steps down as GOP leader
Sen. Trent Lott will step down as Senate Republican leader, a senior GOP aide close to the Mississippian said today, two weeks after Lott's endorsement of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid touched off a national uproar.
Does this mean that our days of having to listen to man-on-the-street interviews from Pascagoula are over? Because I really am ready. I think I've heard a pithy sound bite from every single person who lives there.
Trent Lott steps down as GOP leader
Sen. Trent Lott will step down as Senate Republican leader, a senior GOP aide close to the Mississippian said today, two weeks after Lott's endorsement of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid touched off a national uproar.
Does this mean that our days of having to listen to man-on-the-street interviews from Pascagoula are over? Because I really am ready. I think I've heard a pithy sound bite from every single person who lives there.