Strom Thurmond, and Carroll "Tumpy" Campbell III, son of the late Gov. Carroll Campbell.
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott.
ECONOMIST: He's still not wanted in Richmond, 138 years later
The longest talking filibuster was recorded by the late Senator Strom Thurmond - just over 24 hours.
The departure from the Senate of Strom Thurmond (99) and Jesse Helms (80) may have been predictable.
Look, I don't agree with any of his previous statements about Strom Thurmond or anything like that.
Calhoun, who contrived the rationale nullification for Southern secession, and Strom Thurmond, who led the South out of the Democratic Party.
Chairman Strom Thurmond also demanded the president consult Congress before approving any deployment.
The Strom Thurmond retirement has kind of overshadowed the retirement of Phil Gramm, of Jesse Helms, of Fred Thompson.
The former six-term senator has a deft touch with moderate and conservative counterparts: in 2008, he eulogized Strom Thurmond.
Byrd, of West Virginia, presided over the chamber as the new Senate president pro tempore, replacing Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina.
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Daschle, in turn, moved to appoint Byrd the new Senate president pro tempore, replacing 98-year-old Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Trent Lott (R-MS), whose fond recollections of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential candidacy provoked a wide outcry and ultimately cost Lott his post.
In the U.S. Senate, where seniority is rewarded and revered, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond didn't retire until age 100 in 2002.
Trent Lott to walk the plank (and lose his job as majority leader) after Lott spoke glowingly of Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign for president in 1948.
The impact was immediate: she was working on civil-rights legislation on a committee whose chairmanship had suddenly gone from Edward Kennedy to Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist.
Senator Strom Thurmond was a virulent defender of racism but treated his own illegitimate black daughter with great kindness and thoughtfulness (although he never publicly acknowledged her).
Whispers began among whites when Strom Thurmond, by then South Carolina's governor, arranged for his daughter to go to the all-black South Carolina State College in the 1940s.
Strom Thurmond and his family's maid died in South Carolina.
Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. to reform the nation's criminal code.
Last night, Bob Novak and I were doing our live shots from the grounds of the Capitol building -- within spittin' distance of the statue of Strom Thurmond (and, no, I didn't spit).
In order to honor the longest-serving and oldest senator in history, whom Byrd had just replaced, a resolution was offered that created a new position -- president pro tempore emeritus -- for 98 year-old Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina.
Mr. DAVIDSON: Ken Melman, though--he acknowledges that the Republican Party has had shortcomings, and even has said that he apologizes, essentially, or regrets the Southern strategy that the Republicans employed, even long after folks like Strom Thurmond went to the Republican Party.
The only opportunity for a tilt in their direction would be if the Senate's two oldest Republicans, who are in poor health--South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, 97, and North Carolina's Jesse Helms, 79--suddenly left and the Democratic Governors of their states picked replacements.
When I hear that we'll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who is now devoted to educating inner city-children and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign.
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