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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lott gave an interview with Black Entertainment Television explaining himself and repudiating Thurmond's former views.

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.

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.

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.

Toward the end of Thurmond's Senate career, critics suggested that his mental abilities had declined.

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.

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.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

A dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative.

In the United States, the term cultural conservative may imply a conservative position in the culture war.

In conservative strains of Protestant Christianity, Scripture is understood to be the only truly definitive authority ( a position called Sola Scriptura ).

Throughout his career Bagley argued against the conservative position that teachers were not in need of special training for their work.

In 1965, the Menzies conservative government appointed an Australian, Lord Casey, and the position has since been held only by Australians.

He strengthened his position with domestic and foreign financial circles through conservative economic policies.

Röhm lobbied Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defence, a position held by conservative General Werner von Blomberg.

Others, such as T. S. Eliot, rejected mass popular culture from a conservative position.

Later in April, Sloan sought to resolve the differences of opinion with a position paper that he hoped would set up conditions for resuming control of Opel that would put at rest the doubts of GM's more conservative financial minds.

A conservative position, taken by Lyle Campbell, is that it would have shared the " design features " of known human languages, such as grammar, defined as " fixed or preferred sequences of linguistic elements ", and recursion, defined as " clauses embedded in other clauses ", but that beyond this nothing can be known of it ( Campbell and Poser 2008: 391 ).

Dennett argues that Gould alternated between revolutionary and conservative claims about the theory, and that each time Gould made a revolutionary statement — or appeared to do so — he was criticized, and thus retreated to a traditional neo-Darwinian position.

The conservative position is encapsulated in perhaps the most famous adage of public finance, " An old tax is a good tax ".

As a result, Clinton could run a campaign through the summer defining his opponent as an aged conservative far from the mainstream before Dole was in a position to respond.

While she would later hold the reformist position that the papacy was a corrupting influence on Christianity, her conservative tendencies could be seen in her devotion to the Virgin Mary.

A conservative force is dependent only on the position of the object.

But more importantly, McEwen was bitterly opposed to McMahon on political grounds, because McMahon was allied with free trade advocates in the conservative parties and favoured sweeping tariff reforms: a position that was vehemently opposed by McEwen, his Country Party colleagues and their rural constituents.

He obtained a position at Cutting, Moore & Sidley, an old and conservative Chicago law firm.

Taking a conservative or contrarian position as a bubble builds results in performance unfavorable to peers.

However, it has expressed strong doubts about the Iraq war, and some of its contributors, such as Matthew Parris and Stuart Reid, express a more old-school conservative position.

The promotion of a conservative, Li Peng, to the position of Premier after Hu's departure from executive-level positions made the government less enthusiastic to pursue reform, and upset plans of an orderly succession of power from Deng Xiaoping to Hu.

The general Jewish public remained indifferent to the whole controversy, and Frankel's position was gradually strengthened by the number of graduates from the seminary who earned reputations as scholars and as representatives of conservative Judaism.

In October 2010, Thomas's wife Virginia, a conservative activist, left a voicemail at Hill's office asking that Hill apologize for her 1991 testimony.

This left the Rump basically a conservative body whose vested interests in the existing land ownership and legal systems made them unlikely to want to reform these.

But Sapir's conservative ideas about marriage and the woman's role were anathema to Mead, as they had been to Benedict, and as Mead left to do field work in Samoa the two separated permanently.

There is a scholarly consensus that fascism was influenced by both left and right, conservative and anti-conservative, national and supranational, rational and anti-rational.

The political left, comprised mainly of Social Democrats, covering a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists ; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.

Those who expressed points of view further to the left were generally ignored, whereas those who expressed moderate or conservative points of view were often actively denigrated or labeled as holding a minority point of view.

But Sapir's conservative ideas about marriage and the woman's role were anathema to Mead, and as Mead left to do field work in Samoa the two separated permanently.

He was able to arrange seven of them from left to right: communist, socialist, green, liberal, Christian democratic, conservative and libertarian.

In most civilized human societies, particularly in conservative ones, genitals are considered erogenous zones and are considered a public indecency and sometimes even illegal if left uncovered in public.

By 1875 the conservative white Southern opposition regained control of every state in the South and as he left the White House in March 1877 his policies were being undone.

Comparatively, the UMC stands to the right of liberal and progressive Protestant groups such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church on certain issues ( especially regarding sexuality ), but to the left of historically conservative evangelical traditions such as the Southern Baptists and Pentecostalism, in regard to theological matters such as social justice and Biblical interpretation.

Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.

The Socialist Party ( PS ), joined by other parties on the left, soundly defeated Chirac's conservative allies, forcing Chirac into a new period of cohabitation with Jospin as prime minister ( 1997 – 2002 ), which lasted five years.

Barrow had left the BLP and formed the Democratic Labour Party as a liberal alternative to Adams ' conservative government.

Barrow, a fervent reformer and once a member of the Barbados Labour Party, had left the party to form his own Democratic Labour Party, as the liberal alternative to the conservative BLP government under Adams.

In the second half of his first decade in Washington, Anderson's positions on social issues shifted to the left, though his fiscal philosophy remained largely conservative.

Perhaps the most marked of these is a conservative and traditionalist attitude, where innovative ideas or new technology are discarded or left untested.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

Burnham's wing of the PPP moved to the right, leaving Jagan's wing on the left, where he was regarded with considerable apprehension by Western governments and the colony's conservative business groups.

The conservative Hostiles left and formed a new village, known as Hotevilla.

The more conservative group that emerged from the NSWS split spoke out against what they called the " extreme left " wing of the movement.

Progressive, left, center-left and peace movement related individuals and organizations, as well as the opposition parties, labor and youth groups advocate keeping ( and even strengthening ) the existing constitution in these areas, while right-leaning, nationalist and / or conservative groups and individuals advocate changes to increase the prestige of the Emperor ( though not granting him political powers ) and to allow a more aggressive stance of the self-defense force, e. g. by turning it officially into a military.

Mazowiecki had left the UW in November 2002 after it had left the conservative and Christian democratic European People's Party in favour of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, and entered coalitions with the social-democratic Democratic Left Alliance and the populist Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland party on the local level.