The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 25, 1972, Image 7
Monday, bloody
Jack
BY MIKE HEMBREE
Since the Tom Eagleton affair,
syndicated snooper Jack Andersor
has not been in the best of graces
with many journalists across the
nation.
Thus, Anderson has been quite
careful lately about what types of
leaks he releases when and where
In the cases of his unreliable ex
poses (a la the Eagleton drunker
driving episode), he has passed his
scoops on to others.
One of those recent "semi
scoops" involved a memo ap
parently taken in the dead of nigh
from the desk of, of all people
Santa Claus. Anderson agents
disguised as elves supposedly
pilfered the memo as Santa anc
Stronr
EDITOR'S NOTE: This columr
was written by Jack Bass, the
Columbia Bureau chief of Tht
Charlotte Observer, and a formei
Gamecock staff member. He is ont
of South Carolina's foremos
"Strom Watchers." The columr
originally appeared in The Ob
server Sunday, September 24.
Sen. Strom Thurnond is the nev
Santa Claus of South Carolin
politics. He brings the goodie
home from Washington.
In attending a Strom Thurmonc
appreciation dinner - and thes
days there's one somewhere i
South Carolina just about ever
night -- one remembers the ol
campaign theme of the late L
Mendel Rivers. Federal largess
was a trademark of Rivers amon
his Charleston area constitutent
and his slogan became, "River
Delivers."
Thurmond's new billboards shov
him striding full-length toward th
viewer out of a background of rec
white and blue that proclaims
"Reelect Strom Thurmond...H
gets things done."
lie's wearing a rancher-styl
hat, a stylish shirt and a wide tie
and strides with the vigor on
might expect of a 69-year-old ma
who jogs three miles a day an
whose wife is expecting her secon
child.
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Anderson
Mrs. Claus were resting peacefully
before the yearly autumn toy rush
begins.
The memo was designed in red
and white with a small drawing of
the old man at the top of the page.
Scribbled on the back was
something about a syphilis
epidemic among the reindeer herd.
But the front side of the page was
much more re- 'ling. There
Anderson's men fou. , a partial list
of what were apparently Santa's
tentative plans for Christmas gifts.
Among them were:
For SOUTHERN BELL-Parker
Brothers game book ("How To Win
At Monopoly").
STROM THURMOND-90
Pampers and a long talk with
Planned Parenthood.
Thurmon
Keen observers notice his dark
brown sideburns contrast sharply
with the gray temples on
photographs of him taken eight
years ago.
It's a new image - both
physically and politically.
The ole role of protest is being
cast aside. Thurmond dismisses
his negative voting record on social
legislation and declares, "I'm
going to get every dollar I can for
South Carolina" even for programs
he voted against.
His Democratic opponent, state
Senator Nick Zeigler, snipes,
"Strom will tote the bag, but he
won't put anything in it."
But perhaps the most striking
change of all for Thurmond, the
1948 Dixiecrat presidential can
4 didate who built a career of
s protesting against federal in
s fringement on "the Southern way
of life," is his courtship with Negro
V voters.
e Thurmond maintains his position
has never changed, that he has
always been fair to blacks, but
e others say he has changed indeed
and that much of the change came
e after the 1970 governor's race,
' when Thurmond's man Albert
e Watson ran for governor and lost
n after appealing to traditional at
d titudes.
d More than 25 per cent of the
registered voters in South Carolina
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JOHN McMILLAN-24 pre
stuffed ballot boxes.
RICHARD NIXON-A giant
economy size safety deposit box to
hold secret peace plans; a box of
checkers.
THE S. C. STATE
LEGISLATURE-The annual
Golden Guinea award for general
incompetence and a collective
subscription to Mad magazine.
JOHN WEST-The copyright to
a new book entitled "How To Be A
Moderate Democrat Without
Really Trying."
GEORGE McGOVERN
98,652,427 votes.
ERNEST HOLLINGS-A white
picket fence to leap back-and-forth
over six times daily.
JOE FRAZIER-Fights with Joe
d: Buying
are black, and their vote in many
elections is decisive.
Roughly 75 blacks joined a $25-a
plate crowd of 300 at Spartanburg
Thursday night for an appreciation
dinner for Thurmond.
Mrs. Cammie Claggett, a local
Negro leader, read off a long list of
federal -funded projects in black
communities throughout the state
that Thurmond helped get ap
proved, and there was loud ap
plause when she said, "We must
return Strom Thurmond to the U.
S. Senate.
Mrs. Victoria Delee and more
than 30 other blacks drove almost
200 miles from Dorchester County
for the dinner. Afterwards she met
privately with Thurmond and Tom
Moss, his black aide. Mrs. Delee
wore a Thurmond button on her
dress. She said she's always
considered herself a Democrat, but
added, "It's not the party, it's the
man who can get the jo>
done. ..People can't live off
promises." Thurmond had gotter
her a $160,000 grant for a day care
center.
She made no formal en.
dorsement, but said of Thurmond,
"If we hammerinhim long enough,
we'll get him converted and give
him the Holy Ghost. I don't say if
you can't beat them, join them,
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and other leading contenders. Black cadillac.
CLARK McGREGOR-The flair RALPH NADER-A 1966 Cor
of John Mitchell. vair complete with roll bars and
JOHN MITCHELL-The job of steering wheel lock system.
Clark McGregor. SOL BLATT-A toupee.
SPIRO AGNEW-A six-week RICHARD DALE Y
correspondence course on how to Autographed copy of The God
make friends and influence people. father signed by Marion Brando.
FLOYD SPENCE-A National HUGH HEFNER-Nothing.
Guardsman in every phone booth BURT REYNOLDS-Ten-foot
and a tank in every garage. necktie.
SARGENT SHRIVER-A red, RONALD REAGAN-Re-entry
white and blue "Can-Do" button. into the actors' guild.
ITT-The honor of being in- MERV GRIFFIN-A free pass
stalled as an official department of from the CBS late movie.
the United State government LESTER BATES-A notice that
executive branch. insurance premiums have gone up.
GEORGE WALLACE-The first BORIS SPASSKY-A Chinese
copy of Arthur Bremer's diary, checkerboard.
soon to be published.
the black vote?
but I say. 'Convert them and then Thurmond is emphasizing his
join them'." "non-partisan" campaign.
Mayor Charles Ross of Lin- Although he will go to North
colnville, a black Democrat, Carolina and campaign for
already is converted. He said he is Republican Jesse Helms "because
endorsing Thurmond because of the President needs a Republican
help in getting approval of four Congrs, Thurmond says he isn't
federal projects for his town. going to work for South Carolina
"When a man helps you, you Republicans running for Congress.
have to help him," Ross said. To do so would of course cut into
White Democratic mayors and his "non-partisan" appeal.
county officials also are lining up In his Spartanburg speech,
with endorsements in return for Thurmond pointedly listed local
delivery of federal grants. Spar- federal grant applications still
tanburg Mayor Robert Stoddard, pending. His clear message was
whose city has gotten help from that his help would be useful after
Thurmond in securing $21 million November.
in federal grants, says it is good for Although Thurmond is off and
local government to have a running, it isn't yet clear how his
Republican and a Democrat in the new image is being received
U. S. Senate. He is supporting among the 1968 supporters of
Thurmond "wholeheartedly" and George Wallace, many of them
introduced him at the "non- traditional Democrats who
partisan" appreciation dinner, rejected Republican Watson in
Only one Democratic legislator 1970.
showed up at-Spartanburg. That
was Rep. Sam Manning, whom
Thurmond had helped on a pet Le tter
project of Manning's to make a
federal memorial site of the T H DTR
Cowpens battlefield. Manning said O
he didn't consider his appearance This is just a note to say that
an endorsement and said he had credit for changes in the Housing
contributed more to Zeigler's Office should go to Mr. Douglas
campaign than the cost of the Fitzgerald, of Business Affairs,
ticket for the Thurmond dinner, and Mr. Joseph Barnes, of
Housing, along with the new
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