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...Earl Warren-and the nomination was considered tantamount to election. The nation seemed weary of the frenetic days of New Deal innovation and the burdens of war and postwar readjustment. Harry Truman was a feeble contrast to the fallen F.D.R., and the Democratic Party was split (Strom Thurmond had deserted to run as a right-wing candidate, Henry Wallace as a left-wing challenger). Voters yearned for tranquillity, and Dewey, running a campaign designed to avoid controversy, promptly put them to sleep. Soothingly, he pleaded: "We need a rudder to our ship of state, a firm hand at the tiller...
...Civil Obedience Act was proposed by Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long and supported by Senators Eastland and Thurmond. Long argued in Senate debate that the law was needed to supplement the other rider to the Civil Rights Act, Title I, which made conspiracy to cross state lines with intent to incite a riot a federal crime...
...Friday's hearing, the only Senate member of the subcommittee present was Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), who, according to Landau, "wanted the thing over with. He wished he were somewhere else...
...this point, Thurmond asked that the hearing recess. April 22 has been set as the date for continuation of the testimony...
...addition to Goldwater, Thurmond and Mitchell, the club will visit with such Republican stalwarts as Rep. Geraid R. Ford (R-Mich.), John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan on Monday...