Word: thurmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pained howls of Senators Goldwater, Stennis, Thurmond and others of limited social conscience have a somewhat ludicrous ring to them. Surely the Junior Senator from Arizona does not seriously propose that an order preventing military personnel from patronizing businesses which do not uphold the basic freedoms and decencies the armed forces are supposed to be defending is a "police state" tactic. And, recalling the vehemence of Senatorial attacks on the Defense Department when it prevented officers from engaging in free-lance public education on the dangers of Communism, it is curious to find Sens. Goldwater and Stennis now deeply concerned...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, an unyielding segregationist, asked Rusk whether he would not "agree that we have been making great progress in this country." Rusk agreed, but added that "there is still unfinished business." Asked Thurmond: "Who has been responsible for that progress-the white man or the Negro?" Rusk replied softly: "Both, working together." Did Rusk approve of the Negro demonstrations?, Thurmond continued. "If I were denied what our Negro citizens are denied," said the Secretary of State, "I would demonstrate...
...Held in the Senate the first secret session in 20 years.* The action was demanded by South Carolina Democrat Strom Thurmond, who said he had classified material to present in defense of his move to add $196 million in funds for Nike-Zeus missile sites. The Senate was evidently not impressed by Thurmond's information. When the Senate reopened its doors four hours and 26 minutes later, Thurmond lost by a vote...
...therefore not surprising that the press, forced to print Senator Thurmond's accounts of Cuba or none of all, has reported with increasing favor and prominence we ultra-conservative demands for invasion. Even in the narrowest political sense, the press ban policy seems half-defeating...
...foreign press carries almost daily reports from correspondents in Havana, some of the best of which are reprinted in small-circulation American publications like The New Republic. But only a tiny minority of Americans ever read these reports; most of America is being fed a steady diet of Thurmond, Goldwater, and Keating...