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That was why the voice of Strom Thurmond, with its counterfeit arguments for states' rights, and the voice of his cousin, Georgia's "Hummon" Talmadge, with its white demagoguery, were listened to and generally, if not unanimously, applauded in the Southland. These were the voices of the apologists and the defenders...
Measure of Emotions. Thurmond claimed that he might win as many as 140 electoral votes. This was grossly exaggerated and he knew it. By the best expert reckoning, he would not get North Carolina, which was cool to all the candidates and coolest to a third-party candidate. He would not get Arkansas, although he might have enough strength there to spoil an outside chance for Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very...
...South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln, had known how to mollify Southern politicians. His portrait hangs in Strom Thurmond's office alongside a blank space where Harry Truman's portrait once hung...
...Strom Thurmond had not been an original, out & out advocate of bolting. At Philadelphia he had supported the nomination of Georgia's Senator Richard Russell as a way of registering a protest without walking out. But in the end he decided that the State's Rights Party was the best thing for him. South Carolina was a hot center of revolt and Thurmond had his eye on the Senate seat of Olin D. Johnston for 1950. He probably had more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because...
...Runner. Strom Thurmond has been running for something all his life. At first he ran for exercise, trotting around his father's farm in Edgefield, S.C., 54 miles from Columbia. When he went to Clemson Agricultural College he ran on the college cross-country team. He was a determined student who overcame a speech impediment by reading slowly for an hour every afternoon to a patient professor. Once his classmates threw him into the swimming pool for trying to shine up too much to the faculty. After graduation he taught school and began running for political offices. He became...