As he ended his nearly 13-hour filibuster early Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) indirectly said it was nature's call that forced him to stop talking: "I would try to go another 12 hours and try to ...

Essie Mae Washington-Williams had a decades-long career as a schoolteacher in Los Angeles, but she’ll likely be remembered most as an emblem of the hypocrisy of her father, the late onetime ...

Charles Bierbauer reviews the life and accomplishments of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. In this ETV Classic and SCETV Special Report, Charles Bierbauer reviews the life of accomplishments of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Sunday marks 71 years since Strom Thurmond was elected to the U.S. Senate by a write-in vote. It was on Nov. 2, 1954, that he became the first and only person in history to win ...

For a time just before and after his retirement in 1999 as T&D publisher, Dean B. Livingston wrote columns for The Times and Democrat about memorable experiences and events in his career and ...

The firestorm that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott set off with his remarks at the 100th birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond has consumed him. He announced his resignation as Senate majority ...