ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : 10 Years Ago Today . . .
. . . Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove) apologized for making an anti-Semitic remark on the floor of the House of Representatives.
His description of an American-born Soviet commentator as a “betraying little Jew” angered Jewish leaders. Dornan changed the remark in the Congressional Record to read: “betraying little turncoat.”
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