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The “Coup Of One”
When Senator James M. Jeffords announced in May that
he would leave the Republican Party, become an Independent,
and vote with the Democratic caucus, former Majority Leader
Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, denounced Jeffords'
departure as a "coup of one."
Reported by Robert Stowe England
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