Richard B. Russell Jr. Quotes
He’s a turncoat if there ever was one.
The event that triggered the call was President Lyndon Johnson introducing the Voting Right Act. Russell had been a mentor to the young Johnson, a fellow Southerner who had voted against and blocked all civil rights legislation when he was in the House and Senate. However when he became President, his representation changed and he reverted to his pre-political views. {637651}
Richard B. Russell Jr., 1897-1971, U. S. Senator (Democrat, GA) Referring to Lyndon Baines Johnson, Conversation with Alabama Senator Lister Hill, 1965
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At the time few believed he would not slow down or kill all civil rights legislation as he had done throughout his career. But this is one example of a politician telling the truth on the campaign trail with few believing him. He certainly vindicated his early civil rights record once he became president.
Hillary Rodham (not yet married to Bill Clinton, at the time a student at Yale Law School) shouted this at Joe Califano as he walked down the aisle of the Senate Caucus Room, representing Paul Austin, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola in a hearing on migrant labor problems on July 24, 1970. Coca-Cola had acquired Minute Maid in 1960, and as a result became involved in the issue because of their exploitation of migrant workers in Florida. Mondale, chairman of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare, was conducting the hearing. He ended up praising Austin in the hearing as Austin agreed to support amending the National Labor Relations act to cover migrant workers and permit them to organize.
Treason has often been committed by those must trusted in a nation.
He was soon thereafter murdered.
Paine had been imprisoned in France for his political writings. After inspiring the nation in the Revolution, he was not a very popular figure in America, being regarded as an atheistic, rabble-rouser. The President distanced himself from the situation and did nothing to secure Payne's release.
In the 1912 Republican nominating convention, Theodore Roosevelt was contesting the renomination of President William Howard Taft whom he had originally picked as the Republican nominee four years earlier. Then Senator Harding gave the nominating speech for Taft. In it he described Roosevelt as:
- Born: November 2, 1897
- Died: January 21, 1971
- Nationality:
- Profession: Attorney
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 to 1971. Russell was a founder and leader of the conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1937 to 1963, and at his death was the most senior member of the Senate. He was for decades a leader of Southern opposition to the civil rights movement.
