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US politics & policy
Tim Scott: conservative black voice on police reform
...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...
June 29, 2020
FT Schools
Politics class: Justin Amash heads towards third party US presidential run
...Other third party candidates have managed to win some Electoral College votes, such as George Wallace in 1968 and Strom Thurmond in 1948....
May 10, 2020
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Jurek Martin
US primaries: how will the early states vote?
...Also speaking were two very famous white political scions, the sons of Senator Strom Thurmond and former Governor Carroll Campbell....
January 30, 2016
Edward Luce
In praise of the decency of Joe Biden, US vice-president
...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....
June 7, 2015
Jurek Martin
South Carolina Tea Party fails to take off
...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...
April 22, 2010
US downturn
Lott ends 34-year Congress career
...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....
November 26, 2007
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
US downturn
Lott stages comeback by just one vote
...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...
November 15, 2006
Quick off the blog
...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....
July 28, 2007
US downturn
Byrd enters history books as longest-serving senator
...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....
June 9, 2006
US downturn
US republicans plan nuclear option for Senate
...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...
April 4, 2005
US downturn
Amity Shlaes: Lots of talk can prevent rash action
...In 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Democrat senator from South Carolina, set a record with a 24-hour 18-minute diatribe....
March 27, 2005
News in-depthThe Big Read
Katrina leaves no external enemy to blame
...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...
September 5, 2005

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