Word: thurmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started. Meanwhile, though, Nixon men were compelled to mount a defense operation among the Southern delegations. Reagan had been making inroads in Alabama, North Carolina and Texas particularly, and this trend could not be allowed to go on unchecked. Barry Goldwater, Senator John Tower of Texas and Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina?three of the most conservative men in the party?counterattacked on Nixon's behalf. Goldwater chatted with Southerners in his hotel suite. Thurmond and Tower took some waverers for boat rides. Their message was basic and concise. The real contest was between Nixon and Rockefeller; every defection...
...pick a liberal as a running mate were everywhere. When a Miami paper printed a front-page story that it would be Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield, Rockefeller's and Reagan's men distributed 3,000 copies on the convention floor to make sure that no one missed the point. Thurmond and company denied the report, but the most effective disclaimer came from Nixon in private meetings with Southerners. "I won't do anything that would hurt development of the two-party system in the South," Nixon told them. "I won't take anybody that I have to shove down...
...stature (see following story). Many Northern Republicans were rankled by the ready acceptance of the selection by Southerners and by conservatives generally. Although Agnew is a moderate by Maryland standards and a liberal by Deep South criteria, there was the suspicion that he was on the ticket to placate Thurmond and other segregationists. Not only liberals protested. Colorado Senator Peter Dominick howled: "There are 2,000,000 people in my state who have never heard of Agnew. It's a terrible choice...
...cinematic merits, it seems unlikely to win even passing mention at any of the international film festivals. But in the New Senate Office Building last week, "0-7" was boffo. The movie, as billed by an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond, is "a vulgar, filthy, subjective thing of a woman disrobing down to her transparent panties...
Along with a clutch of lurid nudie magazines, the film was introduced as evidence of the kind of material that the Supreme Court, with Fortas in agreement, has found to be not legally obscene. Senator Thurmond branded the nudist magazines, such as Nudi-Fax, Friendly Female and Weekend Jaybird, as "foul, putrid, filthy, repulsive, objectionable and obnoxious...