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TRUMAN, Harry S. Typed letter signed ("Harry S. Truman"), as former President, to Walter B. Smalley, Independence, Mo., 27 September 1963. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery.
TRUMAN DENOUNCES THE "DISCOURTEOUS DISPOSITION" OF STROM THURMOND
Fifteen years after Strom Thurmond bolted from the Democratic National convention that nominated Truman on a pro-civil rights platform, the segregationist Senator from South Carolina was still thumbing his nose at Truman: "I read...with a lot of interest," Truman tells Smalley, "the clipping which you enclosed about Strom Thurmond, who preferred to stand at his own desk [while presiding over a Senate session], when he found he was going to stand at the one formerly used by me. He was the Senator who got up and left the room when I came in as President of the United States. So, you see he grew up with a discourteous disposition. United States Senators really should be the most courteous of all public servants..."
After the Philadelphia convention nominated Truman in 1948, Thurmond and his fellow segrationists met at Birmingham, Alabama and nominated Thurmond for President and Mississippi Governor Fielding L. Wright as his running mate. Their States Rights Democratic Party won a sizeable 39 Electoral College votes from four Southern states. They did not appear on any Northern ballot.
TRUMAN DENOUNCES THE "DISCOURTEOUS DISPOSITION" OF STROM THURMOND
Fifteen years after Strom Thurmond bolted from the Democratic National convention that nominated Truman on a pro-civil rights platform, the segregationist Senator from South Carolina was still thumbing his nose at Truman: "I read...with a lot of interest," Truman tells Smalley, "the clipping which you enclosed about Strom Thurmond, who preferred to stand at his own desk [while presiding over a Senate session], when he found he was going to stand at the one formerly used by me. He was the Senator who got up and left the room when I came in as President of the United States. So, you see he grew up with a discourteous disposition. United States Senators really should be the most courteous of all public servants..."
After the Philadelphia convention nominated Truman in 1948, Thurmond and his fellow segrationists met at Birmingham, Alabama and nominated Thurmond for President and Mississippi Governor Fielding L. Wright as his running mate. Their States Rights Democratic Party won a sizeable 39 Electoral College votes from four Southern states. They did not appear on any Northern ballot.