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10 Jan 2010, 7:58 am
Trent Lott resigned his post as Majority Leader in 2002 after praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential candidacy during a birthday celebration for the 100-year-old South Carolinian. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 5:24 am
(I took the picture the same time I got the pictures of the South Carolina Confederate Monument around the statehouse and the Mexican War Monument and the Strom Thurmond monument, too.) [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 4:08 pm
It was then-Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond who voting rights legislation in 1957. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 4:04 am
This time I want to talk about the Strom Thurmond monument.What I'm particularly interested in here is that the monument was altered after it was put up -- to reflect the fact that Senator Thurmond had five, not four children, as the monument originally recorded. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 2:47 am
I did not get to talk with Strom Thurmond; his staff implied that he had no memories of this Act, or, really, of anything else. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 8:49 pm
Even casual students of history know of Strom “Pardon me for Fathering an Interracial Child While Opposing Desegregation” Thurmond’s legendary, 24-hour filibuster against a 1957 civil rights law. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 6:31 am
His prior work for Strom Thurmond and his reaction to the "unseemly" possibility that Thurmond had a "black" daughter indicate that Wilson is not the most advanced mind on issues of race and sex. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 1:45 pm
Strom Thurmond and Sen. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 10:28 am
One area that's likely be be overlooked (except by Doug Berman, of course) is his key role in developing the modern world of federal sentencing.Kennedy, along with Orin Hatch and Strom Thurmond (of all people), pushed along the reforms that culminated [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 2:52 pm
Even Senator Strom Thurmond, one time presidential candidate of the racist Dixiecrat Party, claimed that he opposed Marshall for the bench because he was a liberal rather than because he was black. [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 1:22 pm
In the modern era, they include Strom Thurmond (although my laptop is giving me an error message for putting "modern" and "Strom Thurmond" in the same sentence), Richard Shelby, and Ben Nighthorse Campbell, all of whom switched from Democratic to Republican. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 8:14 am
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina thundered: “Mallory! [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 4:58 am
Consider that two of the most recent inhabitants of that august office have been Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 8:13 am
My procedural take-away from the stimulus story is that the Senate needs to bring back the filibuster--the Jimmy Stewart/Strom Thurmond-25-hour-talk-a-thons. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 3:56 pm
Suppose we grant that not everything Strom Thurmond ever did was bad; he was still, in my view, irredeemable, because of the virulence of his racism against blacks. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 11:36 am
By way of example, Strom Thurmond once spoke for more than 24 straight hours to try to block passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 2:07 am
It's almost as if Trent Lott got his wish and Strom Thurmond HAD won the 1948 Presidential election. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 1:12 am
" Meanwhile, David Winslow invokes Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond: Seriously, nobody with half a brain thinks Obama was referring to Palin. [read post]
7 May 2008, 8:24 pm
He's the carnivorous offspring of Strom Thurmond and Glen Beck. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 8:34 am
Strom Thurmond, for whom Wilkins once worked, described Wilkins as "a man of character and unquestionable integrity. [read post]
