Harry Reid: “last night my wife and I watched the replaying of the speech of Dr. Martin Luther King on CNN. The speech lasted 17…”

“last night my wife and I watched the replaying of the speech of Dr. Martin Luther King on CNN. The speech lasted 17 minutes. No matter how many times I watch the speech, I am so impressed with the message this man delivered. That is why I was stunned today, in getting the Congressional News Briefing, to see what the present President, President Bush, has done to undermine the unity and harmony of our society. I quote: Bush Revives House Participation in Confederate Memorial Ceremony. Last Memorial Day, for the second year in a row, Bush's White House sent a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial. . . . Bush has quietly reinstated a tradition dating back to Woodrow Wilson that his father had halted in 1990. . . . The current Bush White House denies any change in policy. Time adds that one of the organizations connected to the ceremony is the Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose Chief Aide-de-Camp is Richard T. Hines, a politically active lobbyist from South Carolina. In that State's brutal 2000 Republican primary, Hines reportedly helped finance tens of thousands of letters blasting Bush rival Senator John McCain for failing to support the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. This repayment of political debt that the President has in South Carolina is certainly something that flies in the face of what America is all about. It certainly flies in the face of what leaders of the administration says they are trying to do.…”