"The plaque should never have been put up by the Legislature in the first place, and it certainly shouldn't have taken sixty years to remove it."
– Texas Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, upon the banishment of the “Children of the Confederacy Creed” from the Capitol walls. See "Lege Lines," Jan. 18.
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