Quotation of the Day: Defying Trump, Lawmakers Move to Strip Military Bases of Confederate Names - The New York Times

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Monday, July 20, 2020

“You’re wrong — you need to change. We’re the party of Lincoln, the party of Emancipation; we’re not the party of Jim Crow. We should be on the right side of this issue.”

REPRESENTATIVE DON BACON, recalling his response after the White House asked him to drop a proposed bill that would strip the names of Confederate leaders from military bases.

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