Transcript: Deaths of Past Political Figures in Background of Affirmative Action Rulings

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CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
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June 27, 2003
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Relations; Supreme Court> DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR: CBS closes tonight with a look at a week that signified changing times in America -- the people, the politics, and policies that shaped the way we were, and now steer us into the future.

CBS`s Byron Pitts reports on an especially noteworthy week of passages.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE): STROM THURMOND, FORMER U.S. SENATOR: My, you are so little.

BYRON PITTS, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From Strom Thurmond to Lester Maddox and Maynard Jackson, this week America didn`t simply lose three Southerners, she lost sons who were symbols.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lester Maddox was the essence of the Democratic Party.

PITTS: ...

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