Thurmond Kin Admits Payments

[kskiska]

Nephew Acknowledges His Role as 'Pass-Through' to Mixed-Race Daughter

The chief federal bankruptcy court judge for South Carolina, a nephew of former U.S. senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), acknowledged yesterday in an interview that he served as a "pass-through" for payments sent by cashier's check to Thurmond's mixed-race daughter in California.

Walter Thurmond Bishop, a longtime South Carolina judge and lawyer who is the son of Thurmond's late sister, Martha, said he sent money at the senator's request whenever Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, indicated she needed financial assistance. He said he began communicating with Williams on the senator's behalf in the late 1960s and continued to send money, packaged along with warm personal letters, until recent years.

"He never told me she was his daughter," Bishop said in a car-telephone interview yesterday from Columbia, S.C., where Williams has scheduled an 11 a.m. news conference today. "I could surmise, but he never did point-blank say it."

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She said she met with Thurmond about once a year in sessions arranged through his Senate office and that he treated her cordially before handing her money for continued silence. Thurmond escorted her on a tour of the Senate, she said, and his top aides seemed unsurprised by her visits.

Williams has said she did not discuss politics with Thurmond, although she once asked him about the segregationist views expressed during his Dixiecrat campaign in 1948. He told her he was trying "to please his supporters."

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[JailBush]

1. Am I the only who who has a sneaking suspicion that Rush Limbaugh

is Strom's illegitimate child?

[PartyPooper]

2. As much as I loathed Strom Thurmond

I give him some credit for having given money regularly to his daughter. He even paid for her college education. His politics were in the toilet, but, at least, he did make an effort to look out for his daughter. I only wonder what, if anything, he did for her mother.

[thebigidea]

5. ha! he did NO such thing. He paid her hush money to keep it quiet

it might've destroyed him if this came out in the 50s or 60s.

[kskiska]

3. I doubt this was an isolated incident with Strom

Just one liaison that resulted in a daughter. Maybe there are other children out there – living or dead. He certainly had an eye for dark-skinned ladies. He flirted brazenly with one of Clinton's lawyers during impeachment hearings, Cheryl Mills, giving her candies and wooing her with sweet talk.

[montana_hazeleyes]

4. You know what bothers me,

The rightists stripped Bill Clinton naked to the world but whenever one of them has a scandal or crime or something unseemly they ask for people to " respect their privacy."