Steve_McGarrett
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Once again, I find another gem of information. Here we have both the Democrat controlled House and Senate restoring the citizenship of Jefferson Davis, the former President of the Confederate States of America. Why was it done? Democrat President Jimmy Carter explained at the time as referenced below and documented:
[General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored in 1976. It is fitting that Jefferson Davis should no longer be singled out for punishment.
Our Nation needs to clear away the guilts and enmities and recriminations of the past, to finally set at rest the divisions that threatened to destroy our Nation and to discredit the principles on which it was founded. Our people need to turn their attention to the important tasks that still lie before us in establishing those principles for all people.]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29993
Actions - S.J.Res.16 - 95th Congress (1977-1978): A joint resolution to restore posthumously full rights of citizenship to Jefferson F. Davis.
[General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored in 1976. It is fitting that Jefferson Davis should no longer be singled out for punishment.
Our Nation needs to clear away the guilts and enmities and recriminations of the past, to finally set at rest the divisions that threatened to destroy our Nation and to discredit the principles on which it was founded. Our people need to turn their attention to the important tasks that still lie before us in establishing those principles for all people.]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29993
Actions - S.J.Res.16 - 95th Congress (1977-1978): A joint resolution to restore posthumously full rights of citizenship to Jefferson F. Davis.
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