Word: thurmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dewey 1520, Truman 739, Thomas 215, Wallace 212. Thurmond 95, Undecided 95, Other Candidates...
...Barry traveled through the South, two breaks went his way. South Carolina's Senator J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, formally severed his ties to the Democratic Party, announced that he was joining the Republican Party and would campaign for Goldwater. When Barry arrived at Greenville, S.C., in his chartered jet, Strom was waiting at the ramp to embrace him, a gold elephant in one lapel and a Goldwater button in the other. Barry was delighted. "If a man like Thurmond can do it," he said, "I see no reason why Democrats by the tens...
Romney (to Staebler): Are you for George Wallace and Strom Thurmond...
...states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." Returning to Minneapolis, Humphrey was hoisted in triumph on the shoulders of acclaimers. But his performance had already caused a Southern walkout and led to the Dixiecrat presidential candidacy of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...
Finally, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, the Commerce Committee chairman, heard of what was happening and hurried out of the committee room. Cried he: "Let's break this up." At that point Thurmond, apparently tired of sitting on Yarborough, said with characteristic gallantry: "I will have to yield to the order of my chairman...