Former President Clinton set to arrive in Memphis 10/28 amid tight security

WMC - TV ^ | Oct. 27 2003

[mountaineer]

Former President Bill Clinton and Memphis NAACP activist Maxine Smith will be honored with Freedom Awards by the National Civil Rights Museum.

Security is expected to be tight for the event tomorrow afternoon and evening in Memphis.

Museum Executive Director Beverly Robertson says the Memphis police TACT Unit will provide surveillance, working with the Secret Service and Clinton's security team.

Smith is the former executive director of the local NAACP. Her involvement in civil rights began in the 1950's when she was denied admission to Memphis State University because she is black.

Museum board member Greg Duckett says Smith and Clinton are people who didn't latch onto "the fad of the day" in serving the cause of civil rights. Duckett says both honorees identified issues of principal and held fast to promoting them.

[mountaineer]

Considering some NFL players are expected, I'd say the former.

[mountaineer]

Hey, why isn't the Memphis NAACP giving me an award? I even lived in Tennessee for a couple of months one summer when I was a kid! Look, I even have a jersey from that team in Tennessee, whatever they're called.

[doberville]

Well put.

[NCC-1701]

I, unfortunately, do live here. I hope to escape this land of milk and honey someday.

[hgro]

Clinton is of less importance to the United States of America than a dung beetle.

About the same as having Jesse Jackson guard the "White Folks" soup.

[Howie]

In my youth I used to party in Memphis and thought it was a neat town. I guess the criminal element has changed all that?

I worked on the towboats and usually caught the boat at Memphis or Saint Louis. I grew up about 70 miles West in Arkansas.

I wouldn't think it would be a place where Bill would want to be for long, though.

[SerpentDove]

[mountaineer]

Two leaders in the modern civil rights movement [oh, please!] will be honored for their work in Memphis. The National Civil Rights Museum will present the Freedom Awards Tuesday evening.

Former President Clinton and local NAACP leader Maxine Smith, winners of the Freedom Award from The National Civil Rights Museum, will speak at a public forum at the Temple of Deliverance Church. 5,000 are expected to attend the event.

The awards banquet will be held later in the evening where the awards will be presented at 7 p.m. at the Peabody Hotel.

Security is expected to be tight for the event. [Why do they keep harping on this?]

Museum Executive Director Beverly Robertson says the Memphis police TACT Unit will provide surveillance, working with the Secret Service and Clinton's security team. [Is it just me, or should the USSS tell "Clinton's security team," he's all yours, we're outta here?]

Smith is the former executive director of the local NAACP. Her involvement in civil rights began in the 1950's when she was denied admission to Memphis State University because she is black. Museum board member Greg Duckett says Smith and Clinton are people who didn't latch onto "the fad of the day" in serving the cause of civil rights.

Duckett says both honorees identified issues of principal and held fast to promoting them. [The only thing to which x42 held fast was ... well, never mind]

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[archy]

"I understand that the black hookers in Memphis are exceptional and much better than the ones doing business in New York City."

Though not all female, by a long shot. Not that either of the Clintons were bothered by that, as while Arkansas governor, they'd drive over to Memphis from Little Rock to recruit *day laborers.*

[archy]

Can anyone name one thing - one specific thing, not just "holding fast to principle" - Bill Clinton ever did to serve the cause of civil rights?

He was certainly just as fair and evenhanded in his treatment of blacks as with anyone else; he backstabbed them and betrayed them at every opportunity he had to do so, just as he did everyone else who ever misplaced their trust in him. In that sense, at least, he can accurately be described as having treated blacks and whites identically, without favour.

-archy-/-

[Paulus Invictus]

There was the allegation that BJ also has a black son out there somewhere. That allegation never seemed to get media coverage and there was a mysterious reference to DNA evidence to the contrary. Where did they get the Felon's sample--the Blue Dress? Is there anything new about this allegation?

[tgslTakoma]

My sincere condolences to the citizens of Memphis. And please remember, folks... If DIRTPOTUS has touched anything which you may not wish to immediately dispose of - please clean it with the strongest disinfectant available. Do not touch anything without following universal precaution measures.

And please, please, please... keep your daughters, girlfriends, wives, and mothers inside until the danger passes.

Again, my condolences to the good people of Memphis.

[freekitty]

Clinton would probably charge the Hookers.

[freekitty]

Atleast his wife would; then write it off of their income tax.