Strom started hiring Blacks only when their vote became significant. From what I understanded he lusted after all women all the time. Was it John Tower who speculated about the need to nail down his coffin?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:08:33PM -0500, DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
> Had to change the subject line!
>
> In a message dated 12/19/2003 1:45:35 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> rhisiart at charter.net writes:
>
> > i hate to sound cruel, but does this sound vaguely reminiscent of strom
> > thurmond's black daughter to the rest of you as it does to me?
> >
> > R
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> Strom's Black daughter did come to mind when I read this, but
>
> 1. Strom was an odious racist whose views "evolved." His daughter says he was
> one of the first Senators to hire Black staff. News accounts do not say
> whether they made policy or swept up, but....
>
> 2. Eichmann's body count way exceeds Strom's
>
> 3. Strom AT LEAST acknowledged his kid in private if not in public.
>
> Strom's grandson lives in SW WA and interviews with him, like interviews with
> his mother point just to the personal burden of keeping this secret, not o
> any great sense of responsibility for Strom.
>
> So don't sign me up for the Strom fanclub, but at least we're talking
> matters of degrees
>
> DoreneC
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