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22 de feb. de 2024 · I didn’t know how to respond. The elevator doors opened, and I moved to leave. “Have a nice day, Mr. Secretary,” he grinned broadly. “You, too, Senator,” I said as I exited. Subscribe. rved with Strom Thurmond,” Biden said, referring to the South Carolina Republican senator and segregationist who died at the age of 100 in 2003.
17 de feb. de 2019 · When Strom Thurmond died in 2003, Joe Biden remembered his Senate colleague — one of the most notorious segregationists in history — the way he wanted to be remembered. Thurmond, who lived to 100, was “a product of his time,” Biden said in his eulogy of the South Carolina Republican who built his career on a Dixiecrat campaign for president in 1948 and on his opposition to civil rights.
James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of John William Thurmond and Eleanor Gertrude Strom. He attended Clemson College (now Clemson University), where he was a member of ΠΚΑ, graduating in 1923 with a degree in horticulture. He was a farmer, teacher and athletic coach until 1929, when he ...
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was a central figure in the political transformation of the South and one of the longest-serving senators in American history. He died in 2003; he was 100 years ...
The late senator Strom Thurmond is viewed today mostly as a relic from another time. A Southern politician who was shaped by the Great Depression, World War II, and Jim Crow, Thurmond infamously fought tooth and nail to preserve segregation in his home state of South Carolina.
29 de ago. de 2016 · This was a U.S. governor and senator, Strom Thurmond, who holds a record for filibustering that we may be tempted to note as some kind of Olympic event — continuous talking from 8:54 PM on August 28, 1957 to 9:12 PM August 29, 1957. It’s the longest filibuster in American history at 24 hours, 18 minutes. But it is no Olympic event.
James Strom Thurmond ( 5. december 1902 – 26. juni 2003) var en amerikansk politiker, som repræsenterede South Carolina i det amerikanske senat fra 1954 til april 1956 og november 1956 til 1964 som demokrat og fra 1964 til 2003 som republikaner. Da han gik af som senator, var han 100 år gammel og den senator, der havde siddet længst med 48 ...
