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...happy confusion of Byrnes's inauguration, his predecessor was not forgotten. As outgoing Governor J. Strom Thurmond, 48, and his pretty wife, "Sugar," 24, packed up to move out of the executive mansion last week, a group of personal and political friends turned up to bid them goodbye. As a token of esteem for the man who ran for President in 1948 on the Dixiecrats' states' rights program, the friends brought along a shiny new Cadillac and five crisp $100 bills to help the Thurmonds set up housekeeping at Aiken. "I'm floored," said...
North Carolina's husky, handsome, 54-year-old Congressman Thurmond Chatham is a man who likes people, parties, a well-bottomed drink-and doing what he pleases. He surprised his Yale classmates by passing up officer training courses, enlisting as a seaman in the Navy in World War I. He startled fellow businessmen by expanding instead of contracting the family business (Chatham blankets) during the Depression, a gamble which eventually made him a millionaire. During World War II he wangled a demotion-from commander to lieutenant commander-to get into combat on a cruiser in the Southwest Pacific...
With these words, Johnston effectively established the fact that, though not a Dixiecrat like Thurmond, he was just as anti-Negro. Johnston also made it clear that he hated Harry Truman just as much, only he was playing it smarter: by being a Democrat he could sabotage the President better from the inside...
This left the voters of South Carolina only lesser issues to decide upon. Johnston, said Thurmond, was immoral, "because he once entertained Sally Rand in the governor's mansion." Thurmond, Johnston retorted, had once stood on his head for a photographer...
...election day, the voters preferred Johnston, 178,000 to 154,000, a choice which National Chairman Bill Boyle applauded as, from his viewpoint, the lesser of two evils: Thurmond, as Dixiecrat candidate for President, had drawn 39 electoral votes from Harry Truman...