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Meredith and Powell in party politics clash over seating
The text recounts Meredith discussing a possible GOP run in Manhattan's 18th District after a meeting in a Manhattan hotel. It notes Powell's ouster by the House and planned legal action, plus Meredith's ambivalent stance on running and potential leave from Columbia Law School. It mentions a 1966 Mississippi voting rights march and Powell’s news conference at his Bimini retreat.
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Manhattan
GOP
Meredithy
National Guard
Powell
Meredith
University of Mississippi
House
Ting
Columbia University Law School
Memphis
Tenn
Jackson
Mississippi
New York
Bimini
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Floyd B. McKissick
Jean Cahn
Stokely Carmichael
Militant Students Nonviolent Coordinating
Republicans
Columbia Law School
Washington