Talk:Lee Atwater

How could Atwater be quoted in a 2005 column by Bob Herbert? He died in 1991. So Herbert had to have taken the quote from somewhere else, and that should be the source. Not Herbert's column. Since when is a column by a far left guy a source?
 * Any record of a statement in a major publication can be a cited source, but I have found an earlier published source for this in an interview with Alexander P. Lamis (8 July 1981), as quoted in The Two-Party South (1984)‎ by Alexander P. Lamis ~ Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Any record of a statement in a major publication can be a cited source, but I have found an earlier published source for this in an interview with Alexander P. Lamis (8 July 1981), as quoted in The Two-Party South (1984)‎ by Alexander P. Lamis ~ Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)