Thurmond Recovers, Returns to Senate
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Sen. Strom Thurmond returned to work one day after leaving a Georgia military hospital, where he spent a week being treated for a respiratory infection. “Can’t a person be 95 and enjoy good health and be normal?” the South Carolina Republican asked at a crowded news conference, called mainly to show that he has recovered.
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