who had to be wheeled into the Senate
from wikipedia :
"Toward the end of Thurmond's Senate career, critics suggested his mental abilities had declined. His supporters argued that, while he lacked physical stamina due to his age, mentally he remained aware and attentive, and maintained a very active work schedule, showing up for every floor vote. He stepped down as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee at the beginning of 1999, as he had pledged to do in late 1997.[284] Retrospectively, a Senate aide stated that "for his last ten years, Thurmond didn’t know if he was on foot or on horseback", while a 2020 New Yorker article stated that he was "widely known" by the end of his career to be "non-compos mentis."
but he did have 4 kids after marrying his second wife age 22 when was 68.
my parents would have thought him a "dirty old man"
I can only imagine what they would have thought about LGLAPNPAPEAIOEINAUNRMEB
