Man, why is this guy even apologizing?
Try to stroke a guy’s ego on his 100th birthday, and it turns into a national scandal!
See, what *I* hear is “Strom, Ya really shoulda been President in 1948 – like, you know, before all this Desegregation and Civil Rights and all that other stuff you’re opposed to happened, because then you could *really* be the irrelevant retired-to-the-speech-circuit dinosaur that you otta be, and the rest of the country wouldn’t have had to put up with your stupid racist ass in Congress for the last ***50*** years…
He was just being *DIPLOMATIC* is all… 😉