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Associated Press
COLUMBIA - President Bush on Wednesday tapped the 28-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond to be South Carolina's next U.S. attorney.
The elder Thurmond, who is the second-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, recommended his son to the White House in January. The Judiciary Committee must approve the nomination.
The U.S. attorney oversees federal prosecutions in South Carolina. The most recent officeholder, Rene Josey, nominated by President Clinton in 1996, left office in February.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Schools, who is running the office on an interim basis, said he's looking forward to working with the younger Thurmond.
Strom Thurmond Jr., a state prosecutor in Aiken County, was unavailable for comment Wednesday, a receptionist said.
Last summer, Thurmond Jr. was urged by friends and colleagues to seek the U.S. attorney's job if Bush were elected.
He got recommendations from the leaders of both political parties in South Carolina and other high-profile officials, both Democrat and Republican.
Bush's decision to nominate Thurmond Jr. should come as no surprise in a state that admires his father, said Furman University political science professor Don Aiesi.
Critics have said the 1998 University of South Carolina Law School graduate lacked the experience to do an effective job.
Of the 93 U.S. attorneys practicing in January, all but two had been lawyers for 10 years.
One of his former bosses said Thurmond Jr. is mature for his age. "I am 100 percent satisfied he has the requisite skills to not only manage that office but to lead federal law enforcement operations as well," said Pete Strom, a former U.S. attorney in South Carolina now in private practice.
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He'll do just fine.
Is this the son that it has been suggested will run for Congress and later for Senate? or is there an older brother? thanks
The dynasty continues....
Let's see. Thurmond is 99 and his son is 28. If you want to be impressed, do the math...
Speaking as someone who has practiced criminal defense law for 13 years: 28 years old? Give me a break. Graduated from law school in 1998? He should still be practicing as as Assitant United States Attorney for a good five more years to get more experience.
Does a 28 year-old really have the proper experience for this job, both legal and political?
Let's see. Thurmond is 99 and his son is 28. If you want to be impressed, do the math...
Yes, I remember at a YR Leadership conference around 1970 or so that Strom was going to marry a member of his office staff, a former Miss South Carolina in the Miss America contest, and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Duke University Law School. If this kid combines the abilities of both parents, he is going to be one world beater!
It sounds like if he combines the abilities of both parents, he'll be another Bill Clinton.
Since the primary characteristic of Senator Thurmond is patriotism, integrity, and an unwillingness to compromise, and since, to my knowledge, the ex - Mrs. Thurmond's primary characteristics was a devotion to her country and her child, I fail to see any logic whatsoever to your post.
I was insinuating a combination of intelligence and womanizing would equal Bill Clinton. It was just a joke. I know Clinton wasn't patriotic.
I think nepotism is getting out of control in D.C.
[He'll do just fine]
He'd better. The boy's being groomed to be a career politician. 2nd generation career politicians are something ol'Uncle Strom never liked in his earlier days. Maybe he's gotten too mellow towards his son's ambition, I know that men who have children late in life often do.
I've managed to hold on to a lot of respect for the Senator. He wrote Mama a very nice letter when Daddy passed, and he's always been faithful to our state. His boy is going to have to be stainless, though.
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