they could add essie mae's name on the bottom but there was space, but it said father of four children and had to change the format to a fight that. so when they carve back over, if you don't get that granite powder really, really fine, it's got to be finer than like baby powder, because if you don't when you car back over it is prone to chipping. if you look closely, that five, the i in the fight has a chip on it, on the upper right side. and the left side of the dsl squiggly. and a standing, opens up that stone, the standing opened up the other ores to air and oxidized. it's kind of got a rusty color all around the word five. the whole thing come you can change still but you can't change it very easily. you can see what is in effect the kind of scar on that monument. the stone has been scarred by the work that has been done to change that for into a fight. and in the apple blog, reflect on the meaning of that. different way different people could read the significance of the scarred stone. been reading that stone and that monument think about the legacy of strom thurmond on our polit

a broader consumable context to say these are strom thurmond's -- the forehead nancy fireman and essie mae washington williams but there are a generation of southerners -- southerners who is on a big switch. so that is what i talk about in the last chapter. so i talk about that as just kind of part of thurmond's reaction and others reaction to reagan in 1980 and then act party in which strom says again in 2002, this was in december of 2002, that was really thurmond's 100th birthday party but it was also kind of a going away party because it was his last year in the senate, his term is up in january of 2003. he goes back to edgefield and he only lives for six more months. and at that point it's an interesting moment because that controversy kind of raises for the whole of the modern conservative movement. who is strom thurmond and what role has he played? and also who was trent lott and what role would he play in politics? what is interesting about that is how other republicans and other conservatives are responding to that issue and responding to that controversy so that is part of the ana