In 2002, after remarks made by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott regarding Senator Strom Thurmond's failed presidential bid, Lee said that Lott was a " card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration generated controversy because of remarks by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott that were considered as racially insensitive: " When Strom Thurmond ran for president, voted for him.

* Strom Thurmond's family confirms paternity claim, By David Mattingly, CNN. com, December 15, 2003

This prediction was foiled by Strom Thurmond's candidacy as a splinter States ' Rights Democrat, but Clifford's strategy nonetheless helped win Truman election in his own right and establish the Democratic Party's position in the Civil Rights Movement.

He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.

On December 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding Strom Thurmond's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader.

He hosted Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond at his home when he visited the state, but did not officially endorse Thurmond's campaign.

The canonical example of emergent democracy was the December 2002 resignation of Trent Lott as Senate majority leader after bloggers publicized his praising of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for the presidency.

In April 1993, Five Points was the site of the accidental death of Senator Strom Thurmond's daughter Nancy Moore Thurmond, who was hit by a drunk driver only feet from the limousine of South Carolina's lieutenant governor at the time, Nick Theodore.

Subsequently, Nicholson, demanded Lott denounce his former segregationist views following a speech he gave at Senator Strom Thurmond's birthday dinner when he promoted the Senator's former Dixiecrat Presidential campaign.

In December 2002, at a birthday party celebrating Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday, Republican Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said, “ When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him.

When asked about Trent Lott's controversial comments on December 5, 2002 about Strom Thurmond's, Ballenger made disparaging comments about outgoing Rep. Cynthia McKinney.

In 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that she was the daughter of Wilson's former employer, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, and Thurmond's black maid.

" The paper claimed that Phillips had abandoned the earlier GOP efforts to " out-Dixiecrat the Dixiecrats ," a reference to Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.

At 60 Minutes Wednesday, Mapes produced the story that announced the US military's investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the story that exposed Strom Thurmond's unacknowledged bi-racial daughter, Essie Mae Washington, winning a Peabody Award in 2005 for the former.

In 1978, he was consultant to the successful re-election campaigns of Jesse Helms in North Carolina and Strom Thurmond in South Carolina — the latter being Thurmond's last seriously contested race ( he served until 2002, age 100 ).

The growth of the economy in Lincoln County has been related to development resulting from the J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Clarks Hill Lake ; the logging business and new industry.

* Clarks Hill Lake ( Strom Thurmond Lake )

The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond ( D-SC ): " This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason.

Lake Strom Thurmond, known in Georgia as Clarks Hill Lake, is a reservoir at the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the Savannah River Basin.

This created a movement to rename Clarks Hill Lake after J. Strom Thurmond, the longest serving senator in US history who was from Edgefield on the South Carolina side of the lake.

Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake at Clarks Hill ”

* Lake Strom Thurmond, formerly known as Clarks Hill Reservoir

Located in Wildwood Park Columbia County, Georgia on Lake Strom Thurmond ( also known as Clarks Hill Lake ).

* Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change by Nadine Cohodas: Mercer University Press ( December 1, 1994 ).

Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change ( 1995 )

As with this ensemble, groups like Di Naye Kapelye and Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi have incorporated Rom musicians and elements since their inceptions.

With Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi

The electronics on display generally belong to the realm of 1960s tape-based music more usually produced in academia, with heavy use of tape echo ( for example the massed looping flute layers of " Strom "), and reverse & altered speed tape effects.

* Laurel & Hardie ( originally localized as Laurent and Strom ), two mercenaries who Taloon can meet in Endor during Chapter 3.

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

* Republicans: 30 – 1 ( the lone nay was Strom Thurmond ; John Tower who did not vote was paired as a nay vote with Eugene McCarthy who would have voted in favor.

In April 2005, Kevin Alfred Strom, former Alliance member and then editor of National Vanguard Magazine, issued a declaration calling for Erich Gliebe to step down ; the Executive Committee of the National Alliance and most unit coordinators supported this action.

This splinter party played a significant role in the 1948 election ; the Dixiecrat candidate, Strom Thurmond, carried Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

This project has now grown up to become a band in its own right, and three CDs have been released ; " Auge in Auge ", " Zwilling " and " Gegen den Strom ".

* Eurofurence 7 ( 2001 )-Lisanne Norman ; Lee " Chairo " Strom, Fursuiter, Puppeteer, and member of the Further Confusion organising team since 2003 ; Mark Merlino, co-founder of ConFurence, the original Furry Convention

His successor, Harry E. Strom, had been unable to revive what was seen as a tired regime ; the party had been in government for all but a few months of its existence.

It has been stated that Strom scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT exam, although the date in which he attained that feat is dubious ; he has never attended a university and also has no college degree.

There are at least two dining facilities on campus ; one is the cafeteria located in the Strom Thurmond Student Center and the other is a coffee shop called Java City serving an aray of coffee beverages, sandwiches and snacks as well as being a student gathering place.

Tony, who was a Senate page and intern for GOP Senator Strom Thurmond from 1996 to 1997, was a speechwriter and legislative correspondent for Republican Senator Norm Coleman from 2004 to 2006 ; in 2006, Tony ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Council of the District of Columbia, losing to Tommy Wells.