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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]
7 Oct 2014, 2:35 pm
Mississippi Senator Trent Lott found that out when he said, at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, that America would have had fewer problems if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948. [read post]
