Strom Thurmond
 Senator J. Strom Thurmond in his Capitol Hill office, July 1970. (AP Photo) |
Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) voted against many of Johnson’s “Great Society” programs, Medicaid and Medicare among them. “You had [the poor] back in the days of Jesus Christ, you have got some now, and you will have some in the future,” he said. |
