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''I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him,” Lott said at a 100th birthday party for Thurmond, who ran for president in 1948 on a segregationist platform. “We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.''
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Trent Lott fired by top lobbying firm
Squire Patton Boggs gave no reason for the sudden departure, but Lott said in an interview he was negotiating to join another firm.
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