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Lott's attitude and record on civil rights became a burning issue last week because of what he said at a 100th-birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond. Former majority leader Bob Dole had set the stage nicely with a tribute to the wizened, wheelchair-bound Thurmond, a South Carolinian born when "America had yet to honor the promise of equal opportunity for all our citizens." A fiery segregationist for most of his career, Thurmond eventually embraced the extension of the Voting Rights Act and the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and thus came to symbolize, Dole said...
Dole's graceful words made it all the more jolting when Lott, who is scheduled to resume his old job as majority leader when the Senate convenes next month, took the podium and declared, "I want to say this about my state: when Strom Thurmond ran for President, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either...
Trent Lott is not having a very happy holiday season. With leading Republicans lining up to denounce his comments at a Strom Thurmond birthday event, the beleaguered Mississippi Senator is facing an uncertain political future. Will he stay on as Senate Majority Leader, as he has repeatedly vowed? Or will his detractors get their...
...find these men of the Parties not at all compelling; and so it is that I make my endorsement of that Gentle Giant, and current Governor of the Great Palmetto State (South Carolina)—Mr. J. Strom Thurmond. Running on the strong backs of men of Industry and a States’ Rights platform, Governor Thurmond is uniquely qualified to lead the Nation through “all these problems” it faces...
...other side is Strom Thurmond. He will nip this sudden surge of Democracy in the bud. Jack Robinson will go back to the Negro Leagues and his Georgia homestead. Currently the support for Thurmond appears strong only in the Great States of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, but we must correct for this by delivering Massachusetts and all of New England as well...