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by Turing_Machine 3532 days ago
"If this "1998 interview" exists, Google appears to have no knowledge of it."

Your book link does not describe it as a "1998 interview", and in fact doesn't cite the original source at all.

And no, I don't just dismiss it as a "hit piece". I dismiss it because Thurmond claims to have given up segregation in the very next sentence. Thus making paulv's claim that these "quotes" show that Thurmond never repudiated segregation clueless at best, and likely actively dishonest.

"No longer supports" isn't the same thing as "happy to apologize and keep apologizing","

It is if the "apologies" aren't sincere.