By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
People die, but the truth lives and breathes freely on its own. We now mourn the passing of 87-year-old Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who in December 2003 confirmed one of the oldest rumors in Southern political folklore: She was the mixed-race daughter of former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.
In a conversation I had with Mrs. Williams years ago, she told me how she and her father finally bonded before his death in 2003.
