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Rarely was the nominee's race mentioned, though it was largely the point at issue. Instead, Southern critics like South Carolina's Strom Thurmond argued abstractly that Thurgood Marshall's "activist" legal outlook disqualified him for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court...
South Carolina's Strom Thurmond blamed the disturbances on "Communism, false compassion, civil disobedience, court decisions and criminal instinct." When a Nashville police captain insisted that federal poverty money was paying the salary of a local Black Power agitator-a charge that poverty officials in Nashville and Washington denied-Committee Chairman James Eastland proposed an additional investigation to determine if poverty funds "are being used to promote policies that have a tendency to produce riots...
Marshall's chief inquisitor was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who posed 60 fine-print Constitutional questions. At one point, when asked about antebellum slave codes, Marshall lightened things by replying: "The so-called black codes ranged from a newly freed Negro not being able to own property or vote to a statute that prevented these Negroes from flying kites...
...baffling to understand why such supporters of the Vietnam war as Senators Russell (D-Ga.), Thurmond (R-S.C.), Stennis (D-Miss.), and Byrd (D-Va.) were so outraged by the intervention. Maybe it is because they are southern whites, and Mobutu represents black African nationalism. Russell deplored entering "in local wars where we have no moral commitment to intervene." He is upset by the use of three U.S. planes there and at the same time calmly approves the expenditure of billions in Vietnam. It is amazing logic...
...position to destroy me, and I'm aware of it. My life is at stake. I'm not asking much. All I want is a fair shake." For all his histrionics, only three Senators-Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Texas' John Tower-joined Long and Dodd in voting against censure...