Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He ...

Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of ...

Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness ... His Black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, was born to a 16-year-old domestic servant who worked for the parents of the then ...

Sen. Cory Booker joins Ari Melber reflects on beating Sen. Strom Thurmond's record for longest speech on the Senate floor. Thurmond's previous record was 24 hours and 18 minutes, speaking in ...

His marathon speech, which began at 7 p.m. on Monday and stretched into Tuesday night, shattered the previous record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, set by Strom Thurmond in 1957, a segregationist who ...

Strom Thurmond was broken earlier this week as part of a protest address over Donald Trump. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., broke Thurmond's record for the longest Senate speech April 1 as he ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond. Got a question? Put a reporter on it. Ever think of a question that ...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began ...

Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate ... and constituents at the time was Thurmond’s Black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who was in her early 30s at the time and ...