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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]
21 Feb 2011, 3:35 pm
Next to the art museum is the Convention Center, where Dixiecrats met in 1948 and nominated Strom Thurmond for president. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 6:08 am
Recognizing that George Wallace and Strom Thurmond are the true heirs to Martin Luther King, Justice Roberts and his allies feel the need to direct lectures on BROWN to the "bad" civil rights movement in the hope that we may be converted. [read post]
7 May 2008, 8:24 pm
He's the carnivorous offspring of Strom Thurmond and Glen Beck. [read post]
22 Dec 2012, 3:26 pm
I don't think that Succession by the President pro Tem of the Senate makes any more sense than Succession by the Speaker (and would be just as unconstitutional if one accepts Amar's argument), but at least Leahy, by all accounts, is still fully functioning, unlike such recent potential presidents as Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 5:32 am
At virtually every public appearance, he also jokes self-deprecatingly about his plan to pick Senator Strom Thurmond as his running mate because the 93-year-old would bring generational balance to the ticket.Efforts to appear youthful fall flat, as when Mr. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 6:26 am
Richard Nixon in toasting [Strom] Thurmond's inspiring 90-year journey from racist Democratic segregationist to mossback Republican obstructionist." [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 11:53 am
Strom Thurmond in South Carolina, 1954.Alabama's "sore loser" law does not prevent Luther Strange from running a write-in campaign. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 12:24 pm
" Social conservatives might well like the Electoral College, incidentally, if they figure, probably rightly, that they can win at least the same number of electoral votes won by Strom Thurmond or George Wallace and, should the election be thrown into the House (which, remember picks a Preisdent on a one-state/one-vote basis), be able to exercise great influence at least over the Cabinet picks of ultimate winner. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 5:49 am
If that's all it is, the missing name is Strom Thurmond. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 3:39 pm
Senators Howard Metzenbaum found a powerful cosponsor for his gun ban: South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 4:50 am
But it was Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster for 24 hours, in a failed effort to block a civil rights bill, that set the record for the longest one-person filibuster. [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]
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]
23 Oct 2012, 8:13 am
In 1948, Alabama's Democratic electors voted for Strom Thurmond, and the Party was trying to prevent a similar revolt. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 6:54 am
” Years after the confirmation hearings, Anita Hill observed, "I do not think Strom Thurmond would have embraced Clarence Thomas so readily if his accuser had been a white female" (link here). [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 8:13 am
In 1948, Alabama's Democratic electors voted for Strom Thurmond, and the Party was trying to prevent a similar revolt. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 8:13 am
In 1948, Alabama's Democratic electors voted for Strom Thurmond, and the Party was trying to prevent a similar revolt. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 4:09 am
Strom Thurmond. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 1:55 pm
Reid's comments (on Obama's light skin color having helped him win the Presidency, which is surely a valid point) have also been compared to Trent Lott's astonishing statements of a few years ago about how the country would have been better off had Strom Thurmond's vision - of an eternally segregated society - become reality. [read post]
