Joe Biden reminisces about days lunching with segregationist senators

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The president appeared to lament the partisan divisions in the modern Senate during remarks in Ohio.

, often described African Americans as"an inferior race" and sometimes spoke on the Senate floor about what he called"mongrelization" of races., who was a fellow Democratic senator, at the National Prayer Breakfast in February, where he also spoke fondly of the late Senator John Stennis, a Mississippi Democrat who was also a segregationist.

Biden has sometimes discussed his time in the Senate and compared it favorably to conditions in the chamber today, arguing that senators were more civil and bipartisan in the past."I did not anticipate that there'd be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was"Think about this: What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they're for," he said.U.S.

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