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After his nomination to the federal judgeship six years ago, Marshall had to wait a year while his confirmation was stalled by Southern segregationists in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This time there should be no such delay, although South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who will be a bellwether for many Southern colleagues, promises to oppose Marshall's confirmation-not because he is a Negro, insisted Thurmond, but because he is a "political liberal" and would strengthen the court's activists. Nonetheless, Marshall has firmly aligned himself with civil rights moderates, condemning among other things the black power...
...questions for '68 is how many Southern states Wallace might carry. In 1948, with a lower threshold of racial tension in the South and a campaign style considerably less zestful than Wallace's, Senator Strom Thurmond captured four states and 39 electoral votes for the Dixiecrats, posing a real threat to Harry Truman. Mindful of the defections to Thurmond, Vice President Hubert Humphrey has for months been playing Johnson's John Alden to Southern Democratic Gov ernors-most recently and notably with Georgia's Lester Maddox-to preclude any repetition of 1948 or, for that matter...
Walking past Cahaly's one evening, a poker player pointed to a freckled face bent over Time Magazine. "That is Raging Thurmond," he announced, "one of the Dunster greats." A legend in his own time. Thurmond has flown in professionals from New York and even New Orleans to sit in at some of the Dunster House games...
...SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR 81% of the vote U.S. SENATOR (2 years) McNair (D)* 191,000 Ropers (R) 136,000 Thurmond (R)* (winner) Morrah (D) U.S. SENATOR (6 years) Hollings (D) (winner Parker...
...pledges from all state and local G.O.P. groups on pain of expulsion, and require Mississippi's Republicans to drop the pro-segregation platform plank they adopted in 1964. The party's congressional leadership, urged the report, should reject converts such as South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Albert Watson unless they state their "agreement with the cardinal Republican principle of equal opportunity for all Americans" before crossing the aisle...