Word: thurmond
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South Carolina's Strom Thurmond blamed the disturbances on "Communism, false compassion, civil disobedience, court decisions and criminal instinct." When a Nashville police captain insisted that federal poverty money was paying the salary of a local Black Power agitator-a charge that poverty officials in Nashville and Washington denied-Committee Chairman James Eastland proposed an additional investigation to determine if poverty funds "are being used to promote policies that have a tendency to produce riots...
Marshall's chief inquisitor was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who posed 60 fine-print Constitutional questions. At one point, when asked about antebellum slave codes, Marshall lightened things by replying: "The so-called black codes ranged from a newly freed Negro not being able to own property or vote to a statute that prevented these Negroes from flying kites...
...baffling to understand why such supporters of the Vietnam war as Senators Russell (D-Ga.), Thurmond (R-S.C.), Stennis (D-Miss.), and Byrd (D-Va.) were so outraged by the intervention. Maybe it is because they are southern whites, and Mobutu represents black African nationalism. Russell deplored entering "in local wars where we have no moral commitment to intervene." He is upset by the use of three U.S. planes there and at the same time calmly approves the expenditure of billions in Vietnam. It is amazing logic...
...position to destroy me, and I'm aware of it. My life is at stake. I'm not asking much. All I want is a fair shake." For all his histrionics, only three Senators-Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Texas' John Tower-joined Long and Dodd in voting against censure...
After his nomination to the federal judgeship six years ago, Marshall had to wait a year while his confirmation was stalled by Southern segregationists in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This time there should be no such delay, although South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who will be a bellwether for many Southern colleagues, promises to oppose Marshall's confirmation-not because he is a Negro, insisted Thurmond, but because he is a "political liberal" and would strengthen the court's activists. Nonetheless, Marshall has firmly aligned himself with civil rights moderates, condemning among other things the black power...