COLUMBIA — After a 100-year life that shifted from segregation to reconciliation, Strom Thurmond was eulogized Tuesday by black and white, Democrat and Republican, as a man who redeemed himself ...

The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis commented, "Joe Biden repeatedly praised Strom Thurmond, called him his ‘closest friend,’ urged him to run for president, and eulogized him at his funeral.

Biden contrasts modern Republicans unfavorably with Strom Thurmond “I’ve been a senator since ’72. I’ve served with real racists,” Biden said, according to a White House pool report.

Mr. Biden, who gave a warm eulogy at Mr. Thurmond’s funeral in 2003 and apologized during the 2020 campaign for having fondly reminisced about working with Southern segregationists, offered a ...

Biden, according to a pool report on the fundraiser, recalled being asked to give the eulogy at Thurmond’s funeral, saying, “I told the truth.” “By the time Strom left, he did terrible things.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 26, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at the Evening Light Church of God, located at 358 Chalk Bed Road, in Graniteville, SC.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a retired teacher and daughter of the late senator and segregationist Strom Thurmond, died Monday. She was 87, reports Fox News.

October 27, 2020 More than 4 years ago Then-Sens. Strom Thurmond and Joe Biden during a hearing in 1986. (James K.W. Atherton/The Washington Post) Forgive me if my memories of summer 2003 are hazy.

Biden spoke at Thurmond’s funeral in 2003, during which the then-Delaware senator praised Thurmond as a “special man” whose legacy was a “gift to all of us.” ...

Joe Biden once praised the segregationist Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as “one of my closest friends” and championed him as someone who believed in America's diversity.He ...

"Strom Thurmond stood by me when others didn't and when it was against his political interest to do so," Biden said. "When partisanship was a winning option, he chose friendship, and I'll never ...

Biden told the story of how he came to be a speaker at Thurmond's funeral when he retired from the Senate in 2009 and gave a farewell address. Thurmond's wife, Nancy, called him as Thurmond lay at ...