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...placating his key constituencies in Northern suburbs and Southern cities, which will be least affected by the course he aims to take on desegregation. It bears the stamp of a top White House political aide, Harry Dent, a Southerner whom he inherited from South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Not only did Nixon avoid consulting his Commissioner of Education, Dr. James Allen, a liberal New York Republican, but the White House also dissuaded Allen from releasing an earlier memorandum of his own, expressing the view that integration is essential to equal opportunity in the schools...
...Republican policy on racial issues, most recognize that Republicans on the local level are still distrusted in the South as the party of the rich. Furthermore, none of those Democrats who now hold committee chairmanships are willing to risk them by switching, as did South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Nor need they. South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers privately favored Independent George Wallace over Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Instead of bolting, he let his constituents know exactly where he stood by keeping his silence-thus keeping his Armed Services Committee chairmanship as well...
...unsilent minority still seems fairly aggressive. Last week a group called 1970 Senators for Peace and New Priorities published a full-page ad in the New York Times depicting the President, the Vice President, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond marching along in their undershorts, presumably leading the country toward the abyss...
Here is a book to please the Nixon-Agnew-Thurmond administration...
...disgrace for a handful of radicals to disrupt the opportunities of others to get an education in our colleges today," said South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Whereupon his student audience at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University proceeded to disrupt the Senator's speech by pelting him with marshmallows. "Don't be frightened, Senator!" shouted one heckler. "They're not bombs...