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...blue" educational program boosted conservative candidates for office back home and brought on charges that Walker was dabbling in partisan politics. After he was admonished and reassigned to another command in Hawaii, Walker resigned from the Army. He found a champion in South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, himself a reserve major general (see box). Thurmond complained that Walker was being pilloried; the Senator pushed for a Senate investigation of "muzzling," brought on the hearings that opened last week...
...persistent man who precipitated the Senate investigation of military "muzzling" is South Carolina's J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate's deepest-dyed conservatives and most colorful characters. Even his colleagues from below the Mason-Dixon Line marvel at Thurmond's passionate devotion to the Southern way of life. "Listen at ole Strom out there," said one Southern Senator while Thurmond was in the midst of a stem-winding segregationist speech a few years ago. "He really believes all that stuff...
...does indeed. Born in Edgefield County, S.C., close by the Georgia line, Strom (rhymes with plum) Thurmond is the grandson of a Confederate corporal, the son of a judge and local Democratic leader. His boyhood hero was a friend of his father's: South Carolina's Governor and later Senator Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, one of the most unabashed racists in Southern history. Strom graduated from Clemson College, taught a high school course in agriculture for a while, studied law at night in his father's office, finally ran for curcuit court judge...
...Loving You As I Do." When World War II came. Thurmond put down his gavel. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division, Thurmond went into Normandy by glider on Dday, was injured when his glider crashed, stayed in action until his men had secured their objective; his gallantry won him a Bronze Star. Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve...
After the war, Thurmond returned to South Carolina where, in 1946, he ran for Governor and was elected. In the statehouse. Thurmond dictated a letter to his attractive secretary. Jean Crouch: "My darling Jean, Loving you as I do, I want you to be my wife without too much delay." Miss Crouch, 23 years younger than the Governor, without a word returned to her office and typed out her acceptance...