White House praises John Lewis' legacy as President Trump visits his Virginia golf course.
"Laura and I join our fellow Americans in mourning the loss of Congressman John Lewis," President George W. Bush said in a statement Friday."America can best honor John's memory by continuing his journey toward liberty and justice for all."in 2001 in protest of the controversial election results in Florida that resulted in Bush's victory.late Friday night calling Lewis an"American hero.
“You did not need to agree with John on many policy details to be awed by his life, admire his dedication to his neighbors in Georgia’s Fifth District, or appreciate his generous, respectful, and friendly bearing," McConnell said. “Our great nation’s history has only bent towards justice because great men like John Lewis took it upon themselves to help bend it."
Lewis, a sharecroppers' son who became a giant of the civil rights movement, died Friday after a monthslong battle with cancer, his family said. He was 80. The longtime Georgia congressman, an advocate of nonviolent protest who had his skull fractured by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, was the last surviving speaker from 1963's March on Washington.
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