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When Bilbo had just won Democratic renomination in 1940 during the primary, he bolstered the party establishment nationwide, campaigning in fifteen states. Bilbo gave a keynote address to the Young Democrats of New York, and speeches in [[Pennsylvania]] received the praise from the state's pro–New Deal senator Joe Guffey as being "tops among Southern statesman as a campaigner."<ref name=fleegler,pp.11-12/> In [[Missouri]], Bilbo campaigned for—and was thanked by—the state's U.S. senator and future president [[Harry S. Truman]], who wrote after being re-elected: "Can’t thank you enough for what you did in Missouri."
When Bilbo had just won Democratic renomination in 1940 during the primary, he bolstered the party establishment nationwide, campaigning in fifteen states. Bilbo gave a keynote address to the Young Democrats of New York, and speeches in [[Pennsylvania]] received the praise from the state's pro–New Deal senator Joe Guffey as being "tops among Southern statesman as a campaigner."<ref name=fleegler,pp.11-12/> In [[Missouri]], Bilbo campaigned for—and was thanked by—the state's U.S. senator and future president [[Harry S. Truman]], who wrote after being re-elected: "Can’t thank you enough for what you did in Missouri."
In late June 1945, Bilbo launched a three-hour long filibuster against appropriations for the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), attacking Jews, "n*****s," and "white Gentiles."<ref>June 28, 1945. [https://www.jta.org/archive/mississippi-senator-attacks-jews-in-three-hour-speech-in-senate Mississippi Senator Attacks Jews in Three-hour Speech in Senate]. ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency''. Retrieved June 16, 2023.</ref> The speech, which lambasted harmonious racial relations in the workplace, was prepared by his equally bigoted and vitriolic Mississippi colleague [[John E. Rankin]] of the state's 1st congressional district.
====Association with Robert Byrd, KKK membership revealed====
====Association with Robert Byrd, KKK membership revealed====