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FrontPage magazine.com :: Conservatives Can Be Proud of Their Civil Rights Record by John Fonte: "After Lott, the GOP's conservative base does not need a 'heart transplant' as Senator Frist suggests, it needs a 'memory transplant.' Shortly after the downfall of Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader, NRO's Jonah Goldberg noted that 'Conservatives -- though not Republicans -- were often at best MIA on the issue of civil rights in the 1960s.' That's not exactly right. Bread-and-butter conservatives in Congress (as opposed to conservative writers), that is, men such as Everett Dirksen and Bill McCulloch in the 1960s and Bill Knowland in the 1950s, were strong supporters of equal rights for all Americans. Let us reexamine the history of conservative and Republican involvement in the creation of racial equality under law in this country over the past half-century. "