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17 Apr 2013, 3:09 pm
And I guess I could tolerate a filibuster back when it meant that Strom Thurmond had to pee down his leg. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 8:55 am
Strom Thurmond. [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]
5 May 2023, 7:29 am
In 2001, when he was 98, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was wheeled to the Senate floor to cast votes, despite widespread concern about his mental fitness. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 12:04 am
On this day in ... ... 1957, Strom Thurmond, the former South Carolina governor who'd been sworn in as a U.S. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 4:59 pm
One, recall how opposition from the left (Henry Wallace) and the right (Strom Thurmond) lifted the incubus of extremism from the shoulders of Harry S Truman and allowed him to barrel home through the center. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 6:44 am
Strom Thurmond a scandal but Obama's acquaintance with an unrepentant terrorist a triviality? [read post]
18 Dec 2012, 6:19 pm
The provisions would maintain the existing security and monitoring provisions of the Strom Thurmond Act. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 2:52 pm
Emory University professor Joseph Crispino has written “Strom Thurmond’s America,” a book about one of the last century’s longest-serving senators and key players in the racial politics of the 20th century. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 6:07 am
Strom Thurmond 1964 – Against the Civil Rights Act On April 11, 1964, famed South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond began the longest filibuster on record. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 7:10 pm
The precedent for this includes the Strom Thurmond monument at the South Carolina statehouse, where an artisan used caukling and a chisel to change the number of children from four to five and to add the name of Strom's daughter, Essie Mae. [read post]
23 May 2016, 1:01 am
Strom Thurmond, Republican from South Carolina [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 11:43 am
., Senator Strom Thurmond) argued that the Thirteenth Amendment forbade Title II; they equated "involuntary servitude" with "rendering involuntary service" and with violating private property rights. [read post]
15 Jan 2007, 2:04 am
I wrote this back in 2003, shortly after Trent Lott was given the boot as Minority Leader following his December 2, 2002 whiskey-drenched toast to Senator Strom Thurmond, at a hundred year birthday celebration, wistfully imagining a world where racial segregation would have governed our social interaction. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 6:36 am
[CNN] * Al Sharpton's genealogy traced back to slaves of Strom Thurmond's family. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 11:51 am
Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 10:50 am
Strom Thurmond holds the official record, at 24 hours and 18 minutes, for the lengthiest Senate speech, when he filibustered the Civil Right Act in 1957. [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 10:17 am
" Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina came to national prominence when he stormed out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention after the party endorsed civil rights for African-Americans. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 10:29 pm
Scott beat out Paul Thurmond, son of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, in the primary election. 4. [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]
