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New Orleans
The Yawn of a Long Day
Sir:
With reference to your Sept. 9 article "The Last, Hoarse Gasp": on Aug. 30, 1957, I issued a statement with reference to my extended address against the so-called civil rights bill in which I made the following points: 1) that the Southern Senators agreed that each Senator was on his "own" to oppose the bill as best he could; 2) that I urged another meeting of Southern Senators for the purpose of agreeing to conduct an organized extended debate; and 3) that while urging this meeting I notified Senator Russell that I intended to make a long speech against the bill.
STROM THURMOND
United States Senate
Washington, D. C.
¶ Senator Thurmond may have told Senator Russell that he intended to make a "long speech," but he did not say he intended to make a Senate-record filibuster of 24 hr. 18 min.—ED.
Segregate the Aggregate
Sir:
We should segregate the Russians because they are making trouble, and the Japanese because they fought us, and the Spanish who did, and the Germans who did, and the French who obviously cannot spell. And the English because they are English, which is enough reason. In fact, I think we should segregate all nationalities except the Irish.
HIRAM WILSON SHERIDAN
Glen Ellyn, Ill.