Letters Contradict Biden’s Spin on Segregationist Senator

Correspondence provided to the Washington Post by the University of Mississippi, which houses former Sen. James Eastland’s archived papers, appears to contradict Joe Biden’s characterization of his relationship with the late senator.

“Biden on Wednesday night described his relationship with Eastland as one he ‘had to put up with’… But the letters show a different type of relationship, one in which they were aligned on a legislative issue. Biden said at the time that he did not think that busing was the best way to integrate schools in Delaware and that systemic racism should be dealt with by investing in schools and improving housing policies.”

John Harris: “Biden may hope that voters embrace him as a modern-day Winston Churchill. But the latest donnybrook raises the possibility that he is more like Grampa Simpson.”