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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 family took no action on his behalf and reportedly never again spoke about the matter amongst themselves.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 conservative position left him unhappy with the decisions of the Warren Court.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Washington-Williams did not reveal her biological father's identity until she was 78 years old, after Thurmond's death in 2003.

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

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.

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.

Philby received the memo on Volkov's offer, and alerted the Soviets so they could arrest him.

An internal memo written by military intelligence confirmed it had received approval from the president's office for a strike using " special ammunition " and emphasized that no strike would be launched without first informing the president.

Later Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh received an anonymous memo detailing allegations of bribery that took place during the bidding process for the $ 4. 6 million contract.

In Italy, where Esperanto received positive treatment in a 1952 memo from the Minister of Public Instruction, Segni, there have been various experiments in the use of Esperanto, above all in the cities of Cesena ( Gianfranca Braschi Taddei ), Cagliari ( Nino Pala ) e Genoa.

The FBI responded with a 28-page memo specifically on White and his contacts, received by the White House on February 4, 1946.

The game's main characters are Max Force and Hit Man, who have received a memo from Spencer Williams, Narcotics Opposition Chairman in Washington, DC dispatching them on Project NARC.

" Roberts explained that he had not received the memo with the rules so he showed up with a copy of the script cover and asked Starr to sign it.

In the interim, the Egyptian Lawyers ' Syndicate received a memo signed by twelve attorneys, stating that by defending Azzam, his lawyer, Farid Deeb, " polluted the distinguished history of the Lawyers ' Syndicate ".

Ms. Jennifer Stewart, a reporter that was interviewing Mr. Griffin, Philip Malloy's neighbor, who was running for school board, was interested in Philip's story about suspension and talks to the school superintendent, Dr. Albert Seymour ( who was unaware of any policy against singing the national anthem but is not aware of the context ), the principal Dr. Gertrude Doane ( who received a short memo on the subject ), the assistant principal, Dr. Joseph Palleni ( who is defensive about his level of involvement ), and Miss Narwin ( who verifies the facts of the story without providing additional detail or commentary ).

The gambling case became a local sensation when it was revealed that he had received an internal UW memo which authorized gambling in off-campus tournament basketball pools.

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

The creation of NSA resulted from a December 10, 1951, memo sent by Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Director Walter Bedell Smith to James S. Lay, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council.

* 1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

This can be done by alleging that the cause for retaliation is not the text of the memo but the ideas surrounding it.

Three days before this event, which Microsoft advertised as " a standard in reliability ," a leaked memo from Microsoft reported on by Mary Jo Foley revealed that Windows 2000 had " over 63, 000 potential known defects.

During the first 42 years of tobacco litigation ( between 1954 and 1996 ) the industry maintained a clean record in litigation thanks to tactics described in a R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company internal memo as " the way we won these cases, to paraphrase Gen. Patton, is not by spending all of Reynolds ' money, but by making the other son of a bitch spend all of his.

" A memo submitted by the prosecution in February 2011 cited Guandique's harassment of female staff in prison, including soliciting a nurse and masturbating in front of guards.

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

This image is of a secret memo written by members of the authority on the subject of the new constitution.

On 22 January, the RAF director of bomber operations, Air Commodore Sydney Bufton, sent a memo to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, suggesting that what appeared to be a coordinated air attack by the RAF to aid the current Soviet offensive would have a detrimental effect on German morale.

British historian Frederick Taylor mentions a further memo sent to the Chiefs of Staff Committee by Sir Douglas Evill on 1 February, in which Evill states interfering with mass civilian movements was a major, even key, factor in the decision to bomb the city center.

In his memo, Rehnquist argued: " I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by ' liberal ' colleagues but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed.

CEO John J. Mack wrote in a memo to staff " we're in the midst of a market controlled by fear and rumours and short-sellers are driving our stock down.

The Alto was conceived in 1972 in a memo written by Butler Lampson, inspired by the On-Line System ( NLS ) developed by Douglas Engelbart at SRI, and was designed primarily by Chuck Thacker.

This was a system based on an internal memo drafted by an MI5 officer in 1936, which criticised the long-standing policy of arresting and sending to trial all enemy agents discovered by MI5.

But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don't even want to be quoted by name in a memo ".

The unlawful interrogation methods were confirmed by the minister of Public Security Stanisław Radkiewicz, who admitted in an internal memo that the " fixing " of the investigation included beatings, the complete omission of circumstances and evidence, and the rephrasing of testimonies to aid prosecution in a way that did not reflect reality.

But Perrow's conclusion that the accident was unavoidable is belied by the fact that a TMI control room operator wrote a memo warning of " a very serious accident " if the condensate system problems were not properly addressed.

Dahmer's house was torched by the Ku Klux Klan, and the memo states that Scarpa Sr. was sent to Hattiesburg to work on the case.