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010 $a 2005044944
020 $a0060599316 (alk. paper)
024 30 $a9780060599317
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035 $a(NNC)5423721
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050 00 $aE840.8.L675$bA3 2005
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100 1 $aLott, Trent,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99077862
245 10 $aHerding cats /$cTrent Lott.
260 $aNew York :$bReaganBooks,$c2005.
263 $a0510
300 $aviii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"From Trent Lott's years in Congress to his ascent to majority leader of the Senate - and his decision to leave that post in the heat of controversy - Herding Cats is the revealing chronicle of a unique political life." "Lott's story bridges an extraordinary time in American history. As a fraternity leader during the integration of the University of Mississippi, he helped contain the violence that accompanied James Meredith's enrollment as the university's first African American student. As a congressman during Watergate, he mounted a fierce defense of Richard Nixon - until Gerald Ford quietly counseled him to think twice. A passionate advocate of smaller government, Lott describes his painful choice to support Gerald Ford over his challenger Ronald Reagan in the 1976 election - and his delight in helping lead the revolution that followed Reagan's win in 1980." "Yet it was in his dramatic engagements with the Clinton administration that Lott found his greatest victories - and challenges. Working in secret through political adviser Dick Morris, Lott reveals he persuaded Clinton to accept health insurance and welfare reform laws, along with spending cuts that balanced the national budget. But he was aghast when years of work on a tobacco settlement were scuttled by the White House in 1997 - possibly because of Al Gore's desire to exploit tobacco as a political issue. And he describes in painful detail his decision to resign as majority leader - a move he made when it became clear that the Bush White House had circled the wagons against him."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106857
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651 0 $aMississippi$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115908
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