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Thompson say the president s policies are an insults to the people honored at the museum. These museums are labors of love, love for mississippi, love for your nation, love for godgiven dignity, written into every human soul. I want to bring in cnn National Correspondent athena jones in jackson. Its not just congressman lewis and thompson who are against the visits. We had Board Members of the naacp. So how did things go there today . Reporter hi. Well the president spent about 40 minutes at the museum touring the facility. He saw an exhibit on the freedom riders, he also saw an exhibit on n medgar evers. And he delivered brief remarks to the group, the Smaller Group that was with him inside the billing. You just played some of it. In those remarks he talked about what he called american heros. The some of the various civil rights activists being honored about i this museum. He talked about james meredith, first brad student to enter the university of mississippi back in 1962. And spen

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