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Originally posted by OFKU0
This is what Time said about him.
Her words seemed an appropriate epitaph for the complex Thurmond, who later became the first Southern Senator to hire a black staff member, and for an era in which attitudes about race were marked by ambiguity and often hypocrisy.
http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2003/memoriam/
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This didn't keep him from voting against the civil rights act (1967) and repeatedly against affirmative action. I can't believe she took the hush money, for 78 years! I guess there are things about southern culture I just don't understand. You know there's a pretty big estate sitting there to which she has a legitimate claim. I just don't think I'd be able to display her reserve. She's obviously still under the charm Strom.