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{{Cquote|equal rights for women in every respect...equal pay for equal work for women.}}

{{Cquote|equal rights for women in every respect...equal pay for equal work for women.}}

Thurmond as a Democrat had been a supporter of [[segregation]] and ran for President on the breakaway [[Dixiecrat]] platform in 1948. Like many New Dealers, Thurmand by the 1960s was disenchanted with the [[Great Society]] and changed parties. At Thurmond's one hundredth birthday party, Senate Majority Leader [[Trent Lott]] stated if Thurmond had been elected in the early days of the [[Cold War]] "we wouldn't have had these problems all these years." Liberals were in an uproar, and suggested some racial motivation behind Lott's comments This eventually caused Lott to resign his position as Majority Leader, as Thurmond had run on a segregationist platform. However after Thurmond's death, it was revealed that he had fathered a child with an [[African American]] woman. Thurmond had never abandoned the child, and his now 71 year old daughter spoke affectionately of her loving father.

Thurmond as a Democrat had been a supporter of [[segregation]] and ran for President on the breakaway [[Dixiecrat]] platform in 1948. Like many New Dealers, Thurmond by the 1960s was disenchanted with the [[Great Society]] and changed parties. At Thurmond's one hundredth birthday party, Senate Majority Leader [[Trent Lott]] stated if Thurmond had been elected in the early days of the [[Cold War]] "we wouldn't have had these problems all these years." Liberals were in an uproar, and suggested some racial motivation behind Lott's comments This eventually caused Lott to resign his position as Majority Leader, as Thurmond had run on a segregationist platform. However after Thurmond's death, it was revealed that he had fathered a child with an [[African American]] woman. Thurmond had never abandoned the child, and his now 71 year old daughter spoke affectionately of her loving father.

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