He was giving a speech at the Strom Thurmond Institute in South Carolina in December 1988. Thurmond, Biden said, had urged him to keep running for president, telling him: “You’ve got a good 30 ...

It was held by the American Political History Institute at Boston University. Historian Joseph Crespino discussed his work on former Senator Strom Thurmond while describing the role that writing a ...

He may put it on a website, give it to his own children or turn it over to the Strom Thurmond Institute at Clemson University. “I oftentimes get frustrated at the national message about my ...

Strom Thurmond and Cory Booker couldn’t have been more different. If it were up to Thurmond, Booker, or anyone that looked like him, wouldn’t have a seat in the US Senate. Thurmond made it a ...

The senator's archived papers at the Strom Thurmond Institute at Clemson include stacks of love letters between them. He calls her "Sugie" and "Wifey." From a political convention in Philadelphia ...

Strom Thurmond on Monday during one of the final speeches of his presidency. Biden made the comments while speaking at a White House reception for new Democratic members of Congress. The president ...

Strom Thurmond in 1957. Senate Minority Leader ... citing positions by conservative groups such as the Cato Institute and the Manhattan Institute. He spoke of reading from the Federalist Papers ...

Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...

In an effort to thwart a key civil rights matter, Senator Strom Thurmond spent 24 hours talking, arguing, and making plans to urinate into a bucket. Filibusters are a nuisance tactic lawmakers use ...