The Jefferson Davis's Citizenship Restoration Story
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On November 7, 1978, just weeks after President Carter signed Public Law 95-466, Senator James Eastland mailed Dr. Howard Edward Haller a clipping from The Washington Post with the headline:
“Carter: The Civil War is Over.”
For Howard — great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis — those five words meant the long journey was complete. A promise made to his grandmother had been kept.
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