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Easy Mac
06-26-2003, 09:40 PM
A said day for SC politics, I guess. I never really cared for him, and the last 15 years in Congress was a joke. Thank god he didn't die in office.

He was 100
bosshogg23
06-26-2003, 10:11 PM
Didnt he have a "drool cup" his last several years? Not to knock him or anything, I hope I can still drool at 100 but for an elected represenative?
CHEMICAL SOLDIER
06-26-2003, 10:17 PM
He was a controversial man . I didnt agree with many of his views but he was a good man who helped many and was responsible for creation of MLK Day .
JPhillips
06-26-2003, 10:18 PM
Not that I wished him dead, but I really hope that we won't have to listen to great praises of Strom now that he has died. Sure he lossened up a bit as he got closer to the grave, but he propogated a lot of vile ideology. South Carolina should have been better served.
Easy Mac
06-26-2003, 10:22 PM
Well, they started newscasts here in SC early, around 10.30 at least.

Probably be all the news tomorrow, and I wouldn't be suprised to see some loosely thrown together sepcials all tomorrow.
NoMyths
06-26-2003, 11:15 PM
"Loosely" my eye, Mac...something tells me they've had their "Stick a fork in Strom" packages ready for a few years now. :)
CHEMICAL SOLDIER
06-27-2003, 12:15 AM
He was apparently in real good shape ....excercising till his late 90's ....Well I guess he's lived a life ....
Being able to see the world change ....Talking to Civil War Vets ,
and Spanish American War Vets ...maybe even one or 2 who could remember The War of 1812 ....Seeing the first silent movies ...ETC.
CHEMICAL SOLDIER
06-27-2003, 01:00 AM
dola

Strom was also responsible for the creation of Civil Affairs in the military and made sure everyone always had a voice in Congress. I feel he really did try to brush off the part of history that he ran for the Dixiecratic party and made up for it within the next few years by basically re-forming his own staff and doing some very philantrophic stuff. And I agree, some of his views died down as his years waned in Congress.
sterlingice
06-27-2003, 05:24 AM
Nothing like a man who, in the year 2000, still referred to his microphone as "the machine" (as in "Will you please speak into the machine, sir?")

SI
JonInMiddleGA
06-27-2003, 09:19 AM
Under the heading of "learn something new every day" ... until reading his obit last night, I never realized that Sen. Thurmond was also a Maj.Gen. in the Army Reserve nor did I know that "he landed in Normandy as part of the 82nd Airborne Division assault on D-Day, and won five battle stars and numerous other awards."
Anrhydeddu
06-27-2003, 10:02 AM
maybe even one or 2 who could remember The War of 1812

That would be a stretch. Let's say you have to be 8 yrs old to have remembered 1812 and let's say that Strom had to be 8 in order to be talking to anyone who remembered. That would have been an 107 yr old person at the time life expectancy was in the 60s.