ofou in any other war, 2% of the population, but most of those were lost from disease. if you compare that to huge wars, wars where we lost mess men, the great world wars or the most recent great war, world war ii, you will find that very quickly after that war, japan and germany were our allies. world war ii veterans go to germany and japan now to visit with veterans of that war without a great deal of bitterness. indeed without bitterness. healing from war, a war among countries appears to take place at least when men are sane more easily. healing from civil wars, it seems to me, occurs only gradually. the enemy does not go home, he lives with you, so to speak. in a real sense, if we look at the so-called healing from the civil war, from the black and white point of view. from looking at it from both points of view, it seems to me fair to say that that healing began only with a passage of the civil rights statues of the 1960s. for blacks, the war left open wounds for decades. legal segregation and worse organized violence and terrorism in the south, legal segregation,

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some ofous both sides of the aisle do agree that congress and not the president has the right to declare when the senate is in recess. but whatever your view of these appointments, there is no questioning that in either case, republicans forced the issue through their unprecedented refusal to vote the president's nominees up or down and allow him to proceed with the progress of our nation. as senators, we have a responsibility to advise the president as to nominations and where we agree, to consent. and where we don't, each of us is free to vote a "no." some senators have suggested they oppose all nominations in opposition to the president's recess appointments. and in my position -- in my opinion, a pledge to oppose all nominations is a pledge not to do his or her job. in my view, we ought not to make such a pledge. in my view, while so many americans are out of work and so many of us are here on the public payroll, we can, we should and we must move forward with judicial nominees. madam president, this session began this morning with a very encouraging moment of harmony between the maj