strom thurmond's father murdered a white man.so if you look at the book in terms of fathers and sons, which that is a subtext, thurgood marshall and his father, strom thurmond and his father, james eastland and his father, there's a lot of blood and tears and family history that courses through the book. so these were people who brought blood, family blood into the hearing room. and also there was a subtext of interracial sex. the martial hearings happened in the year of the famous loving case, lobbying, they were a couple in the state of virginia. you all have heard about this couple. by the way there's a movie being filmed about that right now. anyway, the lovings were arrested in the state of virginia in 1967. just weeks before thurgood marshall's hearing started, for sleeping in the same bedroom. the state of virginia said we would drop the charges if you just leave, leave the state. so they did and they came to washington, d.c. to live. and strom thurmond have asked marshall about the loving case. the same strom thurmond who

have you ever heard of strom thurmond? senators every 50 years, whether we need to or not. bob dole was my national chairman. strom thurmond was speaking, and james brown was the entertainment. what's the moral of the story? no one knew why was there. i was there.w seeing bob dole try to keep time was sort of worth it all. if he can try to keep time, speaking of, i would like to take questions. thank god for jim. the last place on or where you can meet 20 people running for president if you are lucky. so, keep south carolina in your prayers. it has been a tough year. the charleston shooting, i would like to note the people at the mother emmanuelle church did a good job of representing my state and mankind. [applause] if you are looking for a model to follow, go to that church. it is, it has been tough. 18 inches of rain in 18 hours in charleston. wholevernment and her team are doing a great job. let's talk about our country a little bit. do you agree that america is worth fighting for? [applause] you think it is worth dyin

and strom thurmond asked marshall about the living case strom thurmond was sleeping with his black madeathering a child and paying hush money not to talk about it. and wes is directing those comments. >> that is the attempt to hurt thurgood marshall during the hearings. >> those southern democrats make the argument his opposition to justice marshall was not predicated on race but what he saw as an advocate relabeled marshall as an activist. was that fiction? >> it was fact. there was option you had to be enacted this layer. so maybe you don't have to be enacted this but maybe the constitution adapts to the times but the fate -- the framers wrote it in such terms. those disagree with that but i believe that it is inorganic document. >> why don't you doubt confessions? >> i had a client once a black kid can finally voluntarily. >> there is of little known fact to lead through the first period four days your day five and as the hearings were dragging on lbj had field and a strategy. >> favors spread out over 12 days that made thurgood marshall very nervous but then johnson was so nervous h

strom thurmond had kids after he was 67, if you can do that we can turn this around.laughter] if you think you can do that, you probably have a high opinion of yourself. i am not betting on you delivering so i am going to plan b. what do you do? you have a lot of people wanting their social security check and medicare bills paid and you have two people paying fica taxes and medicare taxes. simpson bowles is a great trade-off. here's what republicans have to do. we have to eliminate deductions in the tax code that many of us enjoy. $1.2 trillion per year given away in deductions. we have to bring some of that back to the treasury and put it on debt and violate pledges that all of us have signed. have you heard of the grover norquist pledge? i like grover and here's what he said. if you eliminate a deduction like second-home interested action, but if you eliminate that, under the plate you would have to take all the money to buy down tax rates. the problem is no democrat will get in the room to adjust the age of retirement or benefits. what simpson bowles requires is fo

now, strom thurmond had four kids after he was 67.illing to do that, we maybe can turn this around. [laughter] if you think you can do that, you probably have a high preponderance of yourself. [laughter] high opinion of yourself. [laughter] and i'm not betting on you can deliver, so i'm going to plan b. [laughter] so what do you do? you've got a lot of people wanting their social security check and a medicare bill paid, and you've got two people paying twice the taxes, social security and medicare taxes. simpson-bowles is a great trade-off. here's what republicans have to do. we have to eliminate deductions in the tax code that many of us enjoy. $1.2 trillion a year given away in deductions. we're going to have to bring some of that money back into the treasury, and we're going to have to put it on debt, and we're going to have to violate pledges that all of us have signed. have you heard of the grover norquist pledge? now, i like grover, and here's what grover says. if you eliminate a deduction, let's say second home interest deducti

supporters of the group took --trol of several the several democratic parties and ran for office strom thurmond. here, "get right ." they stoodurmond for racial integration and their -- theyt represented stood for racial segregation and the flag that represented them was the stars and bars. the idea that racial changes not a good thing for this nation. the flag continued to grow after this. largely because of the rise of the modern civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. people using the stars and bars begin to show up at civil rights marches and activities where integration and segregation changed the laws and mores. the opposition was sometimes peaceful, but often violent. essentially, these are people who decided they did not want change. they want the world to stay the same as it was before the civil war. they wanted the old ways of african-american subjugation and second-class citizenship. of stars andce bars becomes associated with white supremacy and supervision of african-american rights. this is why it is hard for many people to accept the flag as not sinister into just an indi

we found republican supporter our side ironically and appropriately the son of senator strom thurmond. it was time to do the right thing, and we had a mantra. it's time for the confederate battle flag to come down, time to pass a clean bill. they drove the narrative for 30 days until it happened. and it did happen. we are better sit for it. we are a better state and a better country for it. [applause] and so let me leave you with , i have shared with you a very personal story, and i share that with you as a legislator for a reason because voters and people react not to statistics, not to policy papers, they react to stories, your personal stories. we would not have body camera legislation in south carolina but for those of senator ping were willing the tell a story of his constituency was killed. we would not have brought the battle flag of the confederacy down in south carolina but for people like me who told the personal stories and others who told the story of there eight family members who were killed in that awful massacre on that terrible day, so share your story and change the

ironically and appropriately the son of senator strom thurmond. his name is paul thurmond who was willing to stand in front of republicans and say we don't need to raise a different confederate flag -- that was the plan. we don't need to fly one every few months. it's time to do the right thing and we had a monitor and it was time for the confederate battle flag to come down. it's time to pass a clean bill to do that and we drove that narrative for 30 days until it happened and it did happen. and we're a better state for it. we're a better state for it. we're a better country for it. and so let me leave you with this, which is i have shared with you what are for me very personal stories. i have shared those with you as legislators for a reason. it's because voters and people react not to statistics, not to policy papers. they react to stories. they react to your personal stories. we would not have body camera legislation in south carolina, but for those like senator pinckney who were willing to tell the story of his constituent who was killed. we

strom thurmond had four kids after he was 67. do that, we could maybe turn this around. [laughter] that, think you can do you probably have a high opinion of yourself. [laughter] on you canting deliver, so i'm going to plan b. what do you do? you have a lot of people wanting a social security check and medicare paid. is a great trade off. here is what republicans have to do. we have to eliminate deductions in the tax code that many of us enjoy. $1.2 trillion given away and deductions. we have to bring some of that money back into the treasury. we have to put it on debt. we will violate pledges that all of us have signed. have you heard the grover norquist pledge? says, like grover, but he you have to take all the money to buy down tax rates. what simpson bowles requires is for republicans to eliminate deductions, take some of the revenue to pay down the debt, and what to our democratic friends have to do in return? adjust the age retirement because we are all living so much longer, and we i makeo ask people -- $175,000 a year, i'

that in some ways that the democratic -- [audio difficulty] what we saw is people people like strom thurmondthe senator from south carolina, they left the democrat, they joined the republican party on the issue of civil rights, and they became increasingly influential in the party. and so, i mean, i think those conservative white voters remain the backbone of the republican party in places like texas. that backlash segment of the electorate. and so we're facing a situation where by and large republicans are influenced by the most conservative elements of their party, by the whitest elements of their party. that's who makes up the tea party, and, you know, we're in this titanic struggle between the demographics of the country and the composition of the republican party. and right now this element of the republican party is captured by its conservative backlash wing, unfortunately. and i think that really needs to change if we're going to make any progress. >> hi, i was wondering if you could speak about the pauper ballot. we need a paper trail especially in texas. in the county where i live,