Why?

Because it is probably the closest to accurate information
that you'll find

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/15/thurmond..paternity/

Strom Thurmond's family confirms paternity claim
From David Mattingly
CNN Washington Bureau


(CNN) --An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22,
Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.

Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in June at
age 100. His daughter's story was published Sunday by The Washington
Post.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a 78-year-old retired school teacher in
Los Angeles, California, revealed her relationship to the former
segregationist after decades of silence.

Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the ticket of the States Rights
Party, the "Dixiecrats," a breakaway faction of Southern Democrats who
believed strongly in racial segregation and were opposed to the
Democratic Party's civil rights program.

He received 1 million votes and carried four Deep South states;
Democrat Harry Truman won the election.

Thurmond joined the Republican Party in the 1960s and ultimately
turned away from his segregationist past. (Thurmond's life and times)

Frank Wheaton, Washington-Williams' attorney, said she came forward at
the urging of her children and had no plans to ask the Thurmond estate
for any money, according to the Post.

Monday's statement from the Thurmond family reads: "As J. Strom
Thurmond has passed away and cannot speak for himself, the Thurmond
family acknowledges Ms. Essie Mae Washington-Williams' claim to her
heritage. We hope this acknowledgment will bring closure for Ms.
Williams."

The Thurmond family attorney, J. Mark Taylor, declined further
comment.

Glenn Walters, a South Carolina attorney also representing Williams,
told CNN he was happy that the matter had been resolved in this
manner.

Walters was reportedly prepared to provide documentation and undergo a
DNA test to prove her claim. Her attorney told CNN no DNA test was
done.

According to the Post report, Washington-Williams' mother, Carrie
Butler, worked as a maid at the Thurmond family home in Edgefield,
South Carolina.

At the time the girl was born in 1925, Butler was 16 and Thurmond was
22, unmarried and living in his parents' home.

Butler's sister took the girl to live in Pennsylvania when she was 6
months old. She did not meet Thurmond until returning to South
Carolina in 1941, when she was 16, the Post reported.

Her mother, who was ill and died a short time later, had insisted on
introducing her to Thurmond, who acknowledged her as his daughter, the
newspaper reported.



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While championing family values, former Hillsdale President George
Roche III was sleeping with his daughter-in-law!

It used to be that Hillsdale College thought its curriculum built
character and a respect for Christian "Family Values". Maybe it
still does, no thanks to the disgraced George Roche III, who in
forcibly retiring has turned his institution into a school for
scandal.