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On the Right - Hollings vs. Thurmond.(Fritz Hollings says Strom Thurmond too old)(Brief Article)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 31
Strom thurmond played an obtrusive role in my life. At age 17, waiting at home to be drafted into the army, I used to go with senior members to the Sarsfield Club. I didn't drink yet, but those who did partied there, listening to music, dancing a bit, with maybe a three-piece band on Saturday. Bang! "STROM THURMOND ORDERS BOTTLE CLUBS CLOSED / Newly Elected Governor Upholds State Tradition on Prohibition." A month later, the Sarsfield Club closed down-they couldn't make it on my Coke- drinking.
Then, just months later, there was what he did to the Carolina Cup, the great steeplechase event in Camden. Beginning at age 13, I fondled annually the bookie ports, comparing odds on this horse or the other, parceling out my $2 bets with solemn deliberation, a thousand bettors crowding about a corner of the legendary course, spicing up the race and life in general. Bang! "THURMOND VOIDS BOOKIES / 'There'll Be No Gambling in South Carolina,' Governor Rules."
All that stuff was about the time of Pearl Harbor, or shortly after. A few years later, Gov. Thurmond led a third-party mutiny against President Truman, offering himself as a states'-rights candidate for president. At the inauguration of the victorious Truman, when the celebrities filed by to congratulate the winner, the president declined to accept Thurmond's hand.
He appeared to be about as lost a cause as causes can get, there being by now no corner of South Carolina where you can't get booze, or bet on anything. And the states'-rights movement is pretty much dead, certainly so as a movement touching in any way on civil rights. But Thurmond? Why, he became a Republican, won the Senate seat, and re-won it, with heavy backing from black voters, and kept on doing that right to the current moment, outdistancing the record of any politician in Senate history. He vowed, when last he ran in 1996, to stay on through a full term, intending to retire in January 2003, sometime after his 100th birthday.
And now Fritz Hollings steps in and spoils it all. Strom Thurmond is no longer ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, On the Right - Hollings vs. Thurmond.(Fritz Hollings says Strom...