Strom's love child

Essie Mae Washington Williams, the retired Los Angeles teacher who revealed Strom Thurmond was her father, tells her story on today's LAT op-ed page.

I am not bitter toward him. Throughout his life, he was very kind and generous to my family and me.

I don't need anything from him now in his death. I am only finishing the story that will be told when this chapter in history is written.