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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in a new interview compares Donald Trump to the famous American showman P.T. Barnum – and stated that his golf partner and friend could 'destroy' the Republican Party. Graham made the comments in an Axios interview where he reflected on his own failure to temper his support for Trump even after the Capitol riot – and spoke of Trump's ability to either build up or tear down the party he has effectively coopted.  'Mitt Romney didn't do it, John McCain didn't do it — there's something about Trump,' Graham reflected. 'There's a dark side, and there's some...

Charley Pride turned 70 on March 18. You should know this. Everyone should know this. When Johnny Cash hit that milestone in 2002, his record labels past and present staged a yearlong celebration. Virtually every album Cash had recorded up until that point was reissued, with previously unreleased songs included on the discs and glowing essays tucked into the CD booklets. Willie Nelson got the same treatment as he approached his 70th the next year. It was the proper way to celebrate the lives and legacies of two country music icons. Charley Pride should have been treated to a similar celebrati...

Even if it costs you all your black vote. even though jesse helms did everything he could to filibuster the holiday, it didn't end up being a single person filibuster record. the record longest filibuster in the united states by any state senator, that record actually is not a jesse helms record. that record was also set against civil rights election but it is a record that belongs to this guy. >> i wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there is not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the negro race into our theaters, into our swimmin...

I'm going to sing "dixie" until she cries, and they described it later to the l.a. times. said he did get right in her face and sing dixie in her face, oh, i wish i was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten. watch it all. make her cry. jesse helm's epic filibuster against the martin luther king jr. holiday, interesting the ap asked him, are you worried how it would affect you politicly? you're in a state with a lot of black voters. not only was he worried about it. he was doing it on purpose. that is what he was building his capital on. filibusterering, that was something he...

Interviewed him about what he had done. this was kind of amazing. i stumbled across it today looking at old newspaper clippings. quote, he said in an interview he realized his opposition to king and his comments angered the black community. but he said he didn't expect to get much black support anyway. he said i faced reality, the blacks have a history of voting democratic down the line. jesse helm did overlap with one african-american senator during his entire tenure in the united states senate. carol moseley braun. famously he got into one of the elevators with her and the senator from utah....