J. Marshall Coleman Quotes
I don't think there has have ever been a better friend of the Republican party than Bill Clinton. He has done more than anyone can be expected to do.
J. Marshall Coleman, Virginia Attorney General (Republican), Metro Week In Review, November 4, 1993
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Simon Cameron had switched parties from Democrat to Republican. Lincoln said of him:
On supporting a Black third-party candidate for Mayor of Chicago, while ignoring the regular Democratic nominee, Richard M. Daley:
Critics were divided as to whether this illustrated that Graham was very naïve or very hypocritical. Graham had given Nixon a platform but he attended many Nixon events and was thought of as close to the President. When Watergate finally broke out in the open, Graham, had a major realignment of his view of politicians and has never gotten as close to any politician or appeared to favor a politician since.
This was a new political phenomenon where a President was perceived as more important, more powerful, and preferable to his party. Note that the base of the scale is labeled “Public Opinion”.
John Marshall Coleman is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly during the 1970s. He was the first Republican elected as Attorney General of Virginia since Congressional Reconstruction and served 1978-1982, although his later campaigns for Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senate proved unsuccessful.
