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July 9, 2015

NASH questions the Stennis-as-Statesman label

Jere Nash: Was Stennis really a ‘statesman’? To my mind, a “statesman” is someone who puts his career at risk by taking positions on public policies that may not sit well with a majority of the voters. Stennis never did that. Even though Bill makes the point that Stennis “was virtually alone among state political…