New York Mayor de Blasio criticizes Biden’s comments touting his experience working with two segregationist Southern senators: “Joe Biden is longing for the good old days of “civility” typified by James Eastland.”
Joe Biden, recalling the"civility" of the Senate in the 1970s and ’80s, on Tuesday touted his experience working with two segregationist Southern senators to get"things done" — drawing an immediate rebuke from Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, who is married to an African American woman and has an interracial family.
Speaking at a fundraiser at New York City's Carlyle Hotel, Biden brought up the names of Sens. James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, both Democrats who were staunchly opposed to desegregation. Eastland chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee when Biden entered the Senate — a committee he would later chair.
"I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland," the former vice president said."He never called me 'boy.' He always called me 'son.'" Of Talmadge, Biden said he was"one of the meanest guys I ever knew, you go down the list of all these guys.""Well guess what?" Biden continued."At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition — the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore.
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