Joe Biden wrote about his “unlikely relationship” with Mississippi Sen. James O. Eastland, a notorious white supremacist, in his 2007 memoir, saying that Eastland was “flattered by the defer ...

President Biden on Tuesday reminisced about lunching with the late segregationist Sen. James Eastland while urging members of Congress to build personal relationships with one another to improve ...

Then they were gone. Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) told President Lyndon B. Johnson it was fake news. Eastland’s legacy is under scrutiny in recent days as former vice president Joe Biden ...

Joe Biden, speaking at a fundraiser in New York on Tuesday night, fondly remembered the days he served in the Senate with James O. Eastland, a white supremacist Democrat from Mississippi.

Joe Biden on Tuesday recalled a time of "civility" in the U.S. Senate when he could get along with just about anyone — including the former Mississippi Sen. James O. Eastland, a segregationist.

Concerning the 1957 Civil Rights Act, LBJ told Mississippi Senator James Eastland, “Listen, we might as well face it. We’re not gonna be able to get out of here until we’ve got some kind of ...

Senator Eastland complimented Editor Fine on his candor ... who worked for the Times from 1921 to 1937. ¶ James Aronson, 40, executive editor of the National Guardian, who worked for the Times ...

For decades, racist senators abused the process in the service of segregation, such as when U.S. Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi used it to block federal judges sympathetic to school desegregation.

And of course, Trent Lott, who served alongside Cochran for most of his tenure, served as Senate majority leader. Before Cochran and Lott, there were James Eastland and John Stennis representing ...