(2002-12-19) — U.S. Senator Trent Lott, R-Miss., during the seventh stop of his 27-city ApologiPalooza tour, shocked journalists by turning to a pillar of salt before their eyes.
An aide to the beleaguered, would-be majority leader said, “God had warned him never to look back to his segregationist past.”
Senate colleagues, and Old Testament scholars, interviewed off the record expressed concern for Lott’s wife.

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