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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.
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Thurmond's and 100th
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.
Thurmond's and birthday
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.
Following the ensuring controversy Nicholson's demands initiated, Lott once again apologized for his past support for segregation, his past associations, and his remarks at Thurmond's birthday.
Thurmond's and controversy
On December 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding Strom Thurmond's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader.
Thurmond's and because
Washington-Williams has said that she did not reveal she was Thurmond's daughter during his lifetime because it " wasn't to the advantage of either one of us.
Wilson said even if her story was true, she should not have revealed it because " it's a smear " on Thurmond's image and was a way to " diminish " Thurmond's legacy.
Thurmond's and remarks
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 and by
Thurmond's political career began under Jim Crow laws, established by the turn of the century, together with a constitution that effectively disfranchised blacks from voting.
In the 1970 gubernatorial election, Thurmond's preferred candidate, conservative U. S. Representative Albert W. Watson, was defeated by the more moderate opponent, Democrat John C. West, who had opposed Thurmond's initial write-in election to the Senate and the then outgoing lieutenant governor.
Thurmond's memo and attachment, received by the White House on February 7, 1972, initiated the Nixon administration's persecution of John Lennon that threatened the former Beatle with deportation for nearly five years from 1972 to 1976.
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.
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.
Thurmond's and Senator
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.
Thurmond's and Trent
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.
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.
Thurmond's and Lott
The Washington Post reported that Lott had made similar comments about Thurmond's candidacy in a 1980 rally.
Lott gave an interview with Black Entertainment Television explaining himself and repudiating Thurmond's former views.
Thurmond's and Strom
Strom Thurmond's America ( Hill & Wang ; 2012 ) 404 pages ; $ 30 ).
* Strom Thurmond's family confirms paternity claim, By David Mattingly, CNN. com, December 15, 2003
He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
He hosted Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond at his home when he visited the state, but did not officially endorse Thurmond's campaign.
" 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 ).
Thurmond's and Thurmond
After Thurmond's death in 2003, an attorney for his family confirmed that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's housekeeper, Cassie Butler, then 16 years old.
In 1976, Thurmond appeared in a campaign commercial for incumbent U. S. President Gerald Ford in his race against Thurmond's fellow Southerner, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
She was born on October 12, 1925, to Carrie " Tunch " Butler ( 1909 – 1948 ), who had worked for Thurmond's parents and was 16 years old when Thurmond, then 22 impregnated her.
She was born to Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old black girl who worked as a household servant for Thurmond's parents, and Thurmond, then 22 and unmarried.
After Thurmond's family acknowledged the truth of Washington-Williams ' revelation, Wilson apologized, but said that he still thought that she should not have revealed that Thurmond was her father.
Thurmond's and for
Watson, who had defeated Spence eight years before, had become a Republican in 1965, a year after Thurmond's own defection, and was instead running for governor.
Thurmond's and president
Thurmond's retirement from the Senate on January 3, 2003, coincided with a change from Democratic to Republican control, making Stevens president pro tempore and Byrd the second president pro tempore emeritus.
Thurmond's and him
Thurmond's conservative position left him unhappy with the decisions of the Warren Court.
Thurmond's and .
Six months after Thurmond's death in 2003, it was revealed that at age 22, he had fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's maid, Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old black girl.
Watson had defected to the GOP in 1965, the year after Thurmond's own bolt and had been politically close to the senator.
It was claimed that during this period the NSA had been eavesdropping Thurmond's conversations, using the British part of the ECHELON project.
Toward the end of Thurmond's Senate career, critics suggested that his mental abilities had declined.
100th and birthday
Al Capp's life and career are the subjects of a new life-sized mural commemorating his 100th birthday.
Chaplin's 100th birthday anniversary in 1989 was celebrated with several events.
On his 100th birthday, he was interviewed by Scientific American magazine.
Firstly, to reflect the hope and belief that he would live to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030 ; secondly, and more importantly, to break free of the widespread practice of naming conventions that he saw as rooted in a collectivist mentality, and existing only as a relic of humankind's tribalistic past.
On August 22, 2002, her 100th birthday, Riefenstahl released a film called Impressionen unter Wasser ( Underwater Impressions ), an idealized documentary of life in the oceans and her first film in over 25 years.
Seven years later, on the anniversary of what would have been her 100th birthday, her husband placed an inscription on her tomb that read in part:
Having celebrated her 100th birthday in August 2010, Tanning was the oldest living original Surrealist painter.
In 2004, Victoria University celebrated the 100th birthday of its first home, the Hunter Building.
* November 6 – The U. S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
Margaret's last public appearances were at the 101st birthday celebrations of her mother in August 2001, and the 100th birthday celebration of her aunt, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, that December.
At his 100th birthday and retirement celebration in December, Thurmond said, " I don't know how to thank you.
Her 100th birthday was celebrated in a number of ways: a parade that celebrated the highlights of her life included contributions from Norman Wisdom and John Mills ; her image appeared on a special commemorative £ 20 note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland ; and she attended a lunch at the Guildhall, London, at which George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally attempted to drink her glass of wine.
In the 2008 – 09 season, Feyenoord officially celebrated their 100th birthday and organised many events throughout the year.
* Commemorative medal for King Christian IX's 100th birthday
* Commemorative medal for King Frederik VIII's 100th birthday
* Commemorative Medal for King Christian IX's 100th birthday
* Commemorative Medal for King Frederik VIII's 100th birthday
In 1988, to celebrate what would have been Akhmatova's 100th birthday, the University of Harvard held an international conference on her life and work.
On 10 October 1980, Kaller's 100th birthday, Glemp celebrated a pontifical requiem in honour of Kaller in Frombork's Cathedral of Ss.
For Sosnowiec's 100th birthday, the downtown area was thoroughly rebuilt, to harmonise its architectural layout and give the city a more modern image.
In 2005, St. Lucie County celebrated its 100th birthday.
In 1960, in honor of his 100th birthday and the 350th anniversary of Santa Fe, his daughter Dee and his grandson, Seton Cottier ( son of Anya ), scattered the ashes over Seton Village from an airplane.
On 31 May 2012, All Saints ' Church, Boughton Aluph held a concert to celebrate Deller's 100th birthday.
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