We need strange bedfellows

What Strom Thurmond taught me about politics

The phone call came to my office at The Day in New London, Conn. in 1998, the newspaper at which I had then worked for a decade. I knew from caller ID that it came from Congress. The office from which the call originated left me agog.

“Ms. Casey? I am the chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, the Republican who represents South Carolina in the Sena…