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Civil Rights Luminary Backs Clinton

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 13, 2007

ATLANTA - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the endorsement Friday of Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights struggle, in a blow to Barack Obama in the battle for black support for the Democratic presidential nomination.

'Without reservation or any hesitation I am proud to endorse Hillary Clinton to be the next Democratic nominee to be president of the United States,' Lewis said at an appearance with Clinton at Paschal's Restaurant, an Atlanta landmark of the civil rights movement.

The New York senator called the Georgia congressman one of the people she admires most in the world.

'I see my campaign as a continuation of John Lewis' life work,' the New York senator said.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton, responding to Lewis' endorsement of Clinton, said: 'Barack Obama has great admiration for John Lewis and understands his long relationship with Bill Clinton. He looks forward to his support when Barack Obama is the nominee.'

The Associated Press

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