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February 25, 1980

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a reporter at large

JEFFERSON DAVIS GETS HIS CITIZENSHIP BACK

Robert Penn Warren

REPORTER AT LARGE about Jefferson Davis, statesman and Pres. of the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1976 Sen. Mark Hatfield, of Oregon, introduced a …