THE persistent man who precipitated the Senate investigation of military “muzzling” is South Carolina’s J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate’s deepest-dyed conservatives ...
ASHINGTON – Just after 2 p.m., two aides wheeled Strom Thurmond in his black and silver wheelchair through a crowd of supporters in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “Hiya doon, hiya doon,” the ...
The longest spoken filibuster in American history was by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who went on for 24 hours and 18 minutes in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Thurmond ...
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