What if my regrets was that i had never seen Strom Thurmond one of my regrets was that i had never seen Strom Thurmond. He has such a unusual appearance about him. I am on the flight and i look ahead in front of me. I see a man who has got orange colored hair. These firstgeneration hair plugs. Think to myself, that must be what Strom Thurmonds head looks like. Of course, it was Strom Thurmond. I knew that when people were trying to shake his hand, that kind of thing could i wanted to shake his hand thing. I wanted to shake his hand too. I was about to speak to my fathers rotary club and tell him about all the famous people i have met in washington, and so i was trying to shake his hand, but as i got off the plane, there were already people lined up to shake it could shake his hand. I did not get. Im not a softer linnean, i dont have anything to say to him, really. I was a bit selfconscious, it was a busy airport with a lot of different kinds of people. This is a man best known for his
Begins in late july, 1992. Im on a flight from washington to charlotte. I have been an intern on capitol hill that summer. What if my regrets was that i had never seen Strom Thurmond one of my regrets was that i had never seen Strom Thurmond. He has such a unusual appearance about him. I am on the flight and i look ahead in front of me. I see a man who has got orange colored hair. These firstgeneration hair plugs. I think to myself, that must be what Strom Thurmonds head looks like. Of course, it was Strom Thurmond. I knew that when people were trying to shake his hand, that kind of thing could i wanted to shake his hand thing. I wanted to shake his hand too. I was about to speak to my fathers rotary club and tell him about all the famous people i have met in washington, and so i was trying to shake his hand, but as i got off the plane, there were already people lined up to shake it could shake his hand. I did not get. I dont have anything to say to him, really. I was a bit selfconscio
So my story about Strom Thurmond begins, its late july, 1992, and im on a flight from washington, d. C. To charlotte, North Carolina. I had been an intern that summer up on capitol hill, and one of my regrets of the summer was that id never seen Strom Thurmond. Because all my fellow interns said youve got to see Strom Thurmond. He such an unusual appearance about him. I did know what they meant really your but i had my suspicions. So im on the flight and a look ahead in front of me and i see a man whos got kind of orange colored hair practically, so brightly colored. First generation hair plugs. Shows you how slow i am that i think to myself, that must be what Strom Thurmonds head looks like. Then, of course, it wasnt Strom Thurmond. I knew that when people reaching over trying to shake his hand. I wanted to shake his hand, too, because id been in d. C. That summer for the first time, and i met all of these politicians ive seen a tv. I was about to go home and speak to my dads rotary c
i don t know. i just finished this one. i m still trying to figure it out. that would be fascinating. thank you all for coming out. it s been a real pleasure. [applause] now on booktv members of the first post-9/11 u.s. naval academy graduating class talk about their experience in serving in iraq and afghanistan. this event held on september 11, 2012, was hosted by the navy memorial here in washington d.c.. it s just under an hour. [applause] thanks to all my classmates and co-editors and mentors and supporters who helped make this possible. it was in favor of 2000 when i mentioned this book. there were things happening for me as an active-duty in southern afghanistan in kandahar. is working for general mick nicholson. doing really cool things as a swell, a sand sailor now supporting my my country. maybe i should write a book. really? compared to ben wagner? really? compared to jacob salbi? meagan farley, the less female f-14 pilot to fly over iraq. or my vbs, jason jac
relationship to strom thurmond, what work he did in the kind of thing. and he said it was 40 years ago, you know. any interview would be a wasted your time and money. so my only thing i can do is he was sitting at the time to write a criticism of the book once it came out. and he got a number of other things wrong. he quoted goldwater speaking with thurmond and talk about the importance of equal rights in columbus after lunch a few days before the presidential campaign in 1964. what he didn t say is that he began by everybody singing dixie. there were many confederate flags and american flags, and as the new york times reported in that meeting that a considerable section in his speech was devoted to denouncing the 1964 civil rights act. and any review that said that the only key issues in thurmond s career or constitutionalism and national security, i don t think you will be taken, i don t think that passes the laugh test of a we all know about strom thurmond and his career.