# Strom Thurmond Dead at 100 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684 "2003-06-27T02:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/1 "2003-06-27T02:44:21Z")
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90549,00.html](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90549,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/2 "2003-06-27T02:45:36Z")
Lester Maddox needed company? ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/3 "2003-06-27T02:52:14Z")
If I prayed, I would pray that God is black. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/4 "2003-06-27T02:52:36Z")
I’ll kill you. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193731](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193731) ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/5 "2003-06-27T02:53:37Z")
I was here first. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/6 "2003-06-27T02:54:07Z")
That threat wasn’t serious. Really. I was just commenting on the self-congratulations I felt at being the first one with this story, and then seeing this, posted just moments before. You jerk. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/7 "2003-06-27T02:54:42Z")
Does this make the trifecta? Or was there someone after Gregory Peck & David Brinkley I missed? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/8 "2003-06-27T02:58:45Z")
How could you tell? After what happened to Trent Lott, I think his colleagues are going to be real, real careful what they say in their eulogies. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/9 "2003-06-27T03:01:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by av8rmike \* > \*\*Does this make the trifecta? Or was there someone after Gregory Peck & David Brinkley I missed? \*\* Hume Cronyn on June 16… I had a fleeting thought that I might be the first to post the news about Strom. As if! ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/10 "2003-06-27T03:06:36Z")
I’m up in the Senate Press gallery covering the Medicare bill and was here when the Senate found out about ol’ Strom’s passing. Normally when the Senate is in this late, the chamber is devoid of people. But when Strom’s passing was announced, suddenly there was staff lining the walls of the chamber and about 20 senators suddenly showed up in their desks. Bill Frist and Tom Daschle delivered brief speeches, along with Fritz Hollings, who until Strom retired, was the longest serving junior senator in history. (Well, he still holds that title, but he’s no longer the junior senator from South Carolina.) After that everyone stood up from their desks and had a moment of silence for about 30 seconds. And a press gallery full of reporters just begging to go home suddenly sprung into action. No mention so far of the side of Strom that may not be remembered so well. But the Senate has always treated its own with great deference. In fact, I think Joseph McCarthy may be the only alum of the chamber that isn’t commemorated in some way. Lindsey Graham, Thurmond’s successor, just noted that in Strom’s last election, he got more African American votes than any other candidate in the South. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/11 "2003-06-27T03:08:40Z")
Addendum: I’m pretty sure the southern senators expelled in the 1860s for commiting treason by supporting the Confederacy are also not commemorated, but just about everyone who wasn’t kicked out of the Senate BY the Senate is remembered fondly here. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/12 "2003-06-27T03:14:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > **How could you tell?** Darn you! I heard he’d died, and I logged in here _specifically_ to make that joke! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/13 "2003-06-27T03:22:52Z")
No matter how you feel about the guy, 100 years is a pretty good run. If he hadn’t done everything he wanted to do by that age, he probably wasn’t going to. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/14 "2003-06-27T03:22:58Z")
A little respect here, guys. Yes, we all have our reasons to dislike his political position, but…the man is dead. At 100. Just kidding, carry on!! ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/15 "2003-06-27T03:27:55Z")
Well, y’know, if Hitler hadn’t died at the end of WWII, and had the chance to continue wielding political power, shaping the policy of postwar Germany, and otherwise surviving to moderate his legacy, soften his image, and so forth, it could be that if HE had croaked today, people would be saying nice things about him. But I bet the Jews wouldn’t have forgotten. I wondered if the old so-and-so would EVER retire, or die. I do not rejoice at his death. But I danced like a sonofabitch when he retired. ---
**Author:** ![Lennon\_Lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Lennon\_Lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lennon_Lives)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/16 "2003-06-27T03:31:28Z")
Well you know the old saying “The Good die young”. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/17 "2003-06-27T03:33:31Z")
Good, I hope he’s enjoying Hell, the old racist so and so. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/18 "2003-06-27T03:39:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SNenc \* > \*\*Addendum: I’m pretty sure the southern senators expelled in the 1860s for commiting treason by supporting the Confederacy are also not commemorated, but just about everyone who wasn’t kicked out of the Senate BY the Senate is remembered fondly here. \*\* Wasn’t Strom already in the Senate back then? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/19 "2003-06-27T03:53:41Z")
A friend just suggested that the Supremes striking down the sodomy laws was what finally did him in. This strikes me as plausible. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684/20 "2003-06-27T04:30:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by av8rmike \* > \*\*Does this make the trifecta? Or was there someone after Gregory Peck & David Brinkley I missed? \*\* Maynard Jackson, three-term mayor of Atlanta, died on Monday, followed by Lester Maddox on Wednesday, then Strom on Thursday. [hijack] Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline after Jackson’s death: “A Lion of a Man” And after Maddox’s: “Last segregationist governor dies” [/hijack] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-thurmond-dead-at-100/184684.md?page=2)