George J. Mitchell Quotes
Jessie Helms is an evil man.
George J. Mitchell, U. S. Senator (Democrat, ME), Senate Majority Leader, Chairman, Northern Ireland Peace Talks, Statement to Jane Alexander, Director of the National Endowment for the Arts which was being attacked by Helms in the Senate
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The Republican Party has become See {635400} for an earlier expression of his frustration that his party was abandoning its roots and its principles developed under its 2 greatest Presidents, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Crist, an excellent governor was driven out of the Republican Party when the Tea Party extremists gained a degree of control within the party driving it far to the right.
First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, 1874-1944, invited Jessie DePriest the Black wife of a Congressman to tea at the White House. No Black woman had ever been there socially before. This was a typical Southern reaction. The Texas State legislature actually passed a resolution chastising the First Lady—the only such action in American history.
George John Mitchell Jr. is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He briefly served as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine from 1979 to 1980.