Word: gephardts
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Harvard Law School (HLS) Professor Christopher Edley Jr. has been recommended to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) announced last Friday...
...Gephardt said he expects that Edley, an expert in the field of race and civil rights, will add much to the civil rights commission...
...commission needs invigoration and new ideas and Chris Edley Jr," Gephardt said in a speech at the ARCO Forum yesterday...
...Gephardt described the USCCR as "promoting tolerance and providing America with a better understanding of issues of race and civil rights...
...response of Richard Gephardt was typical. As ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Gephardt felt compelled to release a statement, but there was about his words something wan and attenuated. "Ultimately," he said, "the answer will not be found in state legislatures or in the halls of Congress. The answer lies somewhere in the hopelessness and the hateful hearts of the children who have lost their way." Gephardt is an activist liberal, a voluptuary of governmental solutions, so his concession carries an interesting significance. You saw it from the political right too. "There's not a magic wand...