We had been close friends for so long, and time and again I had seen him help people who needed it. He had been jailed for his civil rights activity in Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964, and had argued death penalty cases for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They had turned an airfield with no lights or navigational equipment into one that was open for business around the clock. I closed with an appeal for unity, getting a laugh when I reminded Congress that even Republicans and Democrats were genetically 99.
South Korea had just elected a new president, Kim Dae Jung, a longtime democracy activist who had been sentenced to execution in the 1970s until President Carter intervened on his behalf. She appeared, but refused to answer the prosecutors’ questions, fearing that they would charge her with perjury because she wouldn’t lie and tell them what they wanted to hear. Thanks to George Mitchell and his leadership team, and our lobbying, we had held all the senators from the first vote except David Boren. democracy as the dominant ideology of post-Communist Yugoslavia; (4) the reluctance of the Bush administrati
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