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At the time most of the racists in the country, especially in the South were Democrats. The liberal Republicans were in favor of Civil Rights along with most non Southern Democrats, but the very conservative Republicans were also opposed to Civil Rights. When Lyndon Johnson, pushed through the Civil Rights Act, the Southerners were furious at their Democratic party. The Conservative Republicans, seeing an opening, courted and pandered to the anti-civil rights Democratic members of Congress, and promised minimal civil rights enforcement. Soon almost all the Southern Democrats became Republicans and the Democratic Party was weakened at the Presidential level and the new conservative Republicans shifted American politics until Bill Clinton and Barack Obama with Congressional Democratic majorities regained power. Nixon’s accurate observation about the Democrats began to be true for the Republicans while the Democratic party no longer had a civil rights struggle every time the party developed a platform or had a convention.


Mackey had taken a position that coincided with most Republicans and conservatives on the issue of CEO compensation. See {630245}. His opponent therefore assumed he was a Republican and called him such. This was his reply.


He was the chairman of the committee and the he had denied the Democrats equal access to witnesses before the meeting in a patently unfair process. When one of the minority members of the committee complained in the open hearing that the process was unfair this was his response. Most majority committee chairmen do not resort to this kind of unfair practice so this was not generally a typical practice but reflected the bitter hyperpartisanship that the House Republicans were engaging in at the time.


Richard Grenell
Richard Grenell
  • Born: September 18, 1966
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Diplomat

Richard Allen Grenell is an American diplomat, political advisor, and media consultant who served as Acting Director of National Intelligence in Former President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Grenell served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020 and as the Special Presidential Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo Peace Negotiations from 2019 to 2021.