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...US presidential history is fascinating; Strom Thurmond was a horrible person and I don’t like what he stood for, but in terms of memorabilia, this poster was very tough to get....
...In 2010, when he won a competitive Republican congressional primary race against Paul Thurmond, the son of segregationist Strom Thurmond, Mr Scott told a local newspaper: “The relevance of me being black...
...Other third party candidates have managed to win some Electoral College votes, such as George Wallace in 1968 and Strom Thurmond in 1948....
...It could be an actual rupture at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, recalling South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat walkout from the 1948 Democratic Convention, with immigration as the...
...Also speaking were two very famous white political scions, the sons of Senator Strom Thurmond and former Governor Carroll Campbell....
...“[Former South Carolina senator] Strom Thurmond had four kids after age 67....
...Two decades ago Mr Biden convinced Strom Thurmond, his Republican counterpart on the Senate judiciary committee, to vote for a landmark 1994 anti-crime bill....
...It is out in the deepest South Carolina countryside, famous for its peaches and being the birthplace of Strom Thurmond, the veteran senator who once ran on a segregationist platform and was only revealed...
...Strom Thurmond, the former South Carolina senator, holds the record for the longest filibuster speech, talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957....
...This makes her the first candidate to win a seat through write-in votes since South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond won his first term in 1954....
...Mr Lott had said the US would be a better country if Americans had elected Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist, as president in the 1948 election....
...There were also to be a couple of pretty big local names on hand, both running for Congress – Paul Thurmond, son of ol’ Senator Strom, and Carroll Campbell III, eponymous offspring of the respected former...
...The 66-year-old earned notoriety in 2002 when he made racially insensitive comments at the 100th birthday party of Strom Thurmond, the segregationist then-senator and one-time presidential candidate....
...In the episode that lost him his earlier leadership job – at a 100th birthday party for Strom Thurmond, the legendary South Carolina senator – Mr Lott appeared to endorse the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket...
...At a birthday celebration for the notoriously racist Senator Strom Thurmond (who died in 2003), Lott remarked that America would have been better off had Thurmond won the presidency in 1948....
...But the record, surpassing the mark set by the late Strom Thurmond, the legendary South Carolina Republican, is an important milestone in Mr Byrd’s career....
...Mr Lott was forced to step down as majority leader in 2002 after he was criticised for comments he made at a 100th birthday party for Strom Thurmond, the former South Carolina senator....
...The Mississippi Republican made a dramatic exit from the scene in late 2002, unable to outrun the controversy sparked by racially offensive comments he made at a 100th birthday party for Strom Thurmond,...
...The 50-year-old, teetotal senator had big shoes to fill when he moved from the House to the Senate in 2002, succeeding Strom Thurmond, who had held the seat since 1954....
...The Mississippi Republican was forced to step down as majority leader in 2002 after comments he made at a 100th birthday party for Strom Thurmond that were criticised for being too friendly to the legendary...
...The filibuster, and the lengthy speeches it can trigger to block a vote, have long been considered a distinctive characteristic of the Senate, with Strom Thurmond's record-setting 24-hour speech an unsuccessful...
...In 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Democrat senator from South Carolina, set a record with a 24-hour 18-minute diatribe....
...Mr Lott, the former House Republican leader from Mississippi, was ousted from the job in 2002 after suggesting the US would have been better off if it had elected Strom Thurmond, the late senator who ran...
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