For many years, there’s been a cherished Washington lie about Strom Thurmond. The lie is that Thurmond, though once a leading segregationist, later renounced that view as morally wrong.

Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family’s spokesman said. She was 87. Washington-Williams kept her father’s identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of onetime segregationist senator Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died.

So I have only a general memory of being sent that July to cover the funeral in Columbia, S.C., of Strom Thurmond ... the Senate care deeply about the genealogy of office space; the place is ...

Strom Thurmond on Monday during one of the final speeches of his presidency. Biden made the comments while speaking at a White House reception for new Democratic members of Congress. The president ...

The oldest and longest-serving senator ever turns 100 years old today. South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond is the first sitting senator ever to become a centenarian; and he does so one month ...