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    "text": "Got this book after former Sen. Alan Simpson died last month + just started reading.\n\nHe spends several pages extolling segregationist colleague Strom Thurmond + blasting a 1992 Post story about Thurmond’s alleged biracial daughter as “crap,” “sludge,” fake news.\n\nJust one problem: it was true.",
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          "alt": "는\nتمح.\nAnd You Can Quote Me\n155\nAllow me to offer a few facts about Strom Thurmond. He devoted almost his whole long life to public service, at great personal sacrifice. He served with extraordinary distinction in the United States Senate beginning in 1954 and continuing to the day I write this in the mid-1990s. He had top seniority on the Armed Services, Judiciary, and Veterans' Affairs committees and served as president pro tem of the Senate from 1981 through 1986. He practiced law and served his community in South Carolina as city attorney, county attorney, and state senator. During World War II, Strom Thurmond was in the Army glider landing in Normandy with the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He was decorated for his valor and courage, receiving some of the highest military honors this country can confer. At the time this Post article was printed, Strom Thurmond was the proud father of four children. A senseless tragedy would take away the life of his beloved oldest daughter many months later. Nancy Moore Thurmond was killed by a drunken driver while in the prime of her life, and a fine and dear man grieved.\nYes, in the 1940s—fifty years past-Strom and most other Southern politicians embraced segregation. He had long since altered his views on the subject, proving it every day in his deeds and in his Senate votes. Still, his supposed fathering of a black woman's child was too good a story for the Washington Post to resist. There was just one basic and fundamental problem, a problem the Post never acknowledged.\nThe story was not true.\nThe day the story ran in the Post, several senators visited with Strom and shared our loathing of it all. Strom, his head held high, ust raised both hands and said, \"The rumor is still out there after sixty-six vears and there is nothing new there. It has been brought up in every campaion I've ever been in \" Then. referring to the people who wrote and edited the story, he said, \"What kind of people are they?* Damn goo…",
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          "alt": "EQ The Washington fost\nThurmond Paternity Claim Valid,\nFamily Says\nL.A. Schoolteacher Is Acknowledged as Late Senator's Child December 15, 2003 |\n今贝\nBy Marilyn W. Thompson\nAfter decades of denials, the family of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) acknowledged yesterday a claim made by a 78-year-old Los Angeles schoolteacher that she is the senator's mixed-race daughter, a charge that had dogged her throughout her otherwise quiet life and shadowed Thurmond during his public career as a leading voice of racial segregation.\n\"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,\" the lawyer for the Thurmond estate, J. Mark Taylor, said in a brief statement in Columbia, S.C. \"We hope this acknowledgment will bring closure for Ms. Williams.\"",
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