UPDATE: Noon Hour
CNN is reporting that Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson (backbencher from Louisiana)
will NOT permit those asking the honor
to Democratic contender for the Presidential
nomination -- Jesse Jackson to lie in state
at the
CAPITOL ROTUNDA of the
D.C. Capitol -- where the
Senate and House of Representatives pass bills.
Feb. 20, 2026
Feb. 17 -- Jesse Jackson, of Chicago Social
Action impact (PUSH), has
died at age 84 of
progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
on Tuesday Feb. 17, 2026.
an obituary is forthcoming.
He "picked up the mantle" of the late
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after his
mentor's assassination in April 1968;
he attempted to run for President twice. . .
He used soaring rhetoric like "KEEP HOPE ALIVE"
but that transcendant rhetoric was inseparable from
an imperfect human being whose ego, instinct for
self-promotion and personal failings were a source
of unending irritation to friends / allies in civil rights
campaigns of many kinds . . .
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