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"There goes the South for a generation," Lyndon Johnson is said to have predicted as he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law. Actually, it's been two generations, but otherwise Johnson was dead-on. For 40 years, the Democratic Party begged Southern Democrats to return to the fold. Always undignified, this pleading eventually become futile as well... http://slate.msn.com/id/2094552/

Clinton To Appear On C.S.I. Bill Clinton is reportedly set to make his acting debut on American TV... sort of. He has appeared in the television movie A Child's Wish as himself, but on CBS' hit drama C.S.I., he will tackle his first role as a fictional character. Fresh from his real-life role as the President of the United States, the delighted series' producers have cast Clinton as the head of a law firm in an upcoming episode.

Bush: "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over" WASHINGTON, DC--Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over." "My fellow Americans," Bush said, "at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that will come to be known as the Clinton Era, eight long years characterized by unprecedented economic expansion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sustained peace overseas. ...