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...years it had been rumored that Thurmond, a Senator from South Carolina, had fathered a black child, but it wasn't until Essie Mae Washington Williams came forward a few months after his death, at age 100, that it became clear the former segregationist leader who once inveighed against "mixing the races" had had his own entanglements. As 78-year-old Williams told it, she had been conceived while her mother worked as a domestic in the Thurmonds' home. Over the years, there were cash payments and moments of tenderness when the Senator and his daughter would occasionally meet. Williams...
...STROM THURMOND OLD GHOSTS...
...father's name was James Strom Thurmond." ESSIE MAE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS, biracial daughter of the former segregationist Senator, who waited until he died and she was 78 years old to reveal that she is the child of Thurmond and a black maid who worked for his family...
Nine months after being forced to step down as Senate majority leader, Trent Lott is back. And he's taking swings at George W. Bush, the President whose strong condemnation of Lott's racially insensitive remarks at the late Strom Thurmond's birthday party helped precipitate Lott's demotion. In June the Mississippi conservative voted against a Medicare prescription-drug bill the President had urged Republican Senators to support. Earlier this month he publicly warned Bush that he had to give Americans more details on postwar-Iraq plans. And last week he joined Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan in a resolution...
...think this is his last laugh." JOSEPH BIDEN, Democratic Senator from Delaware, on being picked by Strom Thurmond to deliver a eulogy at his funeral...