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...campaign across the country. He lambasted Congress for the higher cost of living, for blocking low-rent housing, for failing to vote grain-storage bins. "Give 'em hell, Harry!" the crowds cried. The Democratic left had deserted to the third-party candidate, Henry Wallace, the South to Strom Thurmond's States' Rights party. Republican Candidate Thomas E. Dewey was calm, self-confident, and spent much of his time discussing his future Cabinet. Not until midmorning on the day after election did an amazed nation learn that Truman had scored the greatest upset in U.S. electoral history...
Nixon and his old mentor Republican Senator Storm Thurmond, both won easily in South Carolina with over 70 per cent of the popular vote...
Born. To Senator Strom Thurmond, 69, South Carolina's maverick senior statesman (and most prominent physical fitness fanatic), who bolted the Democrats and became a Republican, and Nancy Thurmond, 25, Miss South Carolina of 1966: their second child, first son; in Greenwood, S.C. Name: James Strom Thurmond...
...Read 'em and weep. Richard Nixon in an ermine robe, Strom Thurmond in a Confederate flag and Lyndon Johnson serving rockets at a barbecue...
WALLACE will meet Humphrey head-on in Indiana this week, and again in one-to-one primaries in Maryland and West Virginia. Wallace remains a force to be reckoned with, though some observers think that he merely wants to be the Democrats' Strom Thurmond -without real power, but able to boast of his influence in high places. Feeling his oats, he joked with reporters last week about his plans as President: "We just may have a lot of press censorship -but maybe I can get you boys a job in the basement or something. That be all right with...