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Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on recent remarks by the Clintons that he saw as distorting civil rights history
Friday, Jan. 11, 2008

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  • Rep. JAMES E. CLYBURN
  • of South Carolina, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on recent remarks by the Clintons that he saw as distorting civil rights history
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