Rand Paul (R-Ky.) indirectly said it was nature's call that forced him to stop talking: "I would try to go another 12 hours and try to break Strom Thurmond's record, but there are some limits to ...

Was Strom Thurmond a racist? The late U.S. senator’s legacy is under scrutiny as current and former students at the University of South Carolina call for renaming the Strom Thurmond Wellness and ...

For many years, there’s been a cherished Washington lie about Strom Thurmond. The lie is that Thurmond, though once a leading segregationist, later renounced that view as morally wrong.

Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...

JOHNSTON -- A blue tick hound will replace an old Southern aristocrat as mascot at Strom Thurmond High School ... proposed by booster club President Thomas Holmes, is patterned after the ...

Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (search), the nation's longest-serving senator and former "Dixiecrat" (search) candidate for the presidency, died Thursday in Edgefield, S.C. He was 100.

Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family’s spokesman said. She was 87. Washington-Williams kept her father’s identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades ...

It included the fact that 10 years before she died, Essie Mae revealed that she was the daughter of Senator Strom Thurmond. He was a conservative political powerhouse who spent much of his career ...

Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was 87. Vann Dozier of Leevy's Funeral Home in Columbia said Washington-Williams died Sunday. A cause of death ...

Retired Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100 and ...