Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.
Colbert declared, “So, one of the nice aspects of it, now, you are up there, you weren't talking about you. You were talking about our nation, the challenges it faces, not just these challenges, but the challenges we always face and the need to face them in some realistic and collaborative way. But along the way of talking about that, you managed to wipe out Strom Thurmond's 1957 record. Which was shameful. Can you remind everybody what the previous record was held and trying to stop?
Booker replied, “Yeah, Strom Thurmond, when he was actually about my age, was trying to stop civil rights and try to stop the civil rights legislation while legends were out there fighting for it in the streets. He was trying to block the legislation, and I want to say that he held that record for 68 years, but in many ways, he planted a seed to just really demonstrate that he was not successful, and a black guy came around and broke that record, so—”
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