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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...