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...they walked into Reagan's 69th-floor suite in the Plaza, the two Republican Senators (John Tower and Strom Thurmond), two Congressmen (Robert Michel of Illinois and Robert Bauman of Maryland) and two Governors (Pierre du Pont of Delaware and Charles Thone of Nebraska) had no inkling that they were stepping into G.O.P. history. They were there for a long-scheduled appointment to give Reagan their advice on who would be his best running mate. Most of the group favored Bush. But Reagan sounded skeptical. He asked just how Bush would help the ticket...
...national campaign depended on his winning there or finishing a close second. Said Connally: "This is the only place we've really worked." To support his cause, Connally enlisted two of the state's most popular and powerful politicians: former Governor James Edwards and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. In particular, Thurmond was campaigning for Connally as though his own career were at stake. With the Texan at his side, Thurmond was at a Du Pont plant gate in Camden at 7:30 one morning last week, buttonholing arriving workers, draping an arm around each and whispering confidingly...
Since Kennedy became chairman of the Judiciary Committee last January, he has impressed other Democrats by his ability to get along with the committee's ranking Republican, former Segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. They were able to compromise, for example, on the testy question of whether nominees for federal judgeships should be required to resign from private clubs that discriminate against blacks. The problem arose over Carter's nomination of a Tennessee jurist, Bailey Brown, to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Brown had a strong pro-civil rights record as a district court judge, but he stubbornly refused...
...election out of the 34 seats at stake, and many are the kind of liberals who went down to defeat in 1978. It is even conceivable that the G.O.P. might win control of the Senate in 1980 or '82. Democrats have such recurring nightmares as finding Strom Thurmond the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, while the current chairman, Kennedy, becomes merely the ranking minority member...
...stick on a secondary issue of foreign policy that Congress in happier times would have been content to leave to the President. Last week the Senate voted 52-41 in favor of a measure sponsored by Virginia's Harry Byrd to lift the sanctions. South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond caught the mood of the Senate's conservatives when he thundered that the guerrilla movements "are armed and guided by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other Communist states. We must not give aid or comfort to guerrillas who would overthrow a democratic government and install a Marxist government...