Original sentence: Thurmond later moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights
Edited sentence: He lived to see Ronald Reagan make that American policy -- and to see it succeed.Thurmond also joined Barry Goldwater and John Tower in the Senate in the early 1960s in calling for victory in the Cold War rather than the bipartisan establishment's preferred model:  perpetual coexistence.Thurmond later liberalized his position on race, even sponsoring the establishment of a federal Martin Luther King Day, and he continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights