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Among those the Young Republicans will meet on Monday are Senators Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Strom Thurmond (R-S-C.), and Attorney General John N. Mitchell. The group will visit with 11 other leading Republican government officials over the two-day period...
...black schools remain open, their names, such as Booker T. Washington or George Washington Carver, are usually changed before white students are assigned to them. Black students, on the other hand, are expected to be happy to attend schools named for Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Strom Thurmond...
...race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...
Some of the YAF delegates seemed bored with the speech. Some seemed uneasy. One shook his head slowly as Thurmond spoke...
Those University of Hartford students who sat through Thurmond's speech were probably a little awed by the transformation of their cafeteria. When they heard a dixiecrat proclaim that "Next to John C. Calhoun, Agnew's the best Vice-President the country's ever had" in their eastern college eating-place, it must have been discomforting. When a crowd of student-conservatives greeted the announcement with a standing ovation and drawled YAAAHOOOS, it was unquestionably sobering...