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To: metesky
Republican President Warren G. Harding hosted a Klan meeting in the White House!

I believe your implication is misleading. Harding went down to Birmingham, Alabama in 1923(?) and gave a speech(not at all well received) to a white audience on the importance and need for improving the rights of Blacks. That took guts, and is hardly the kind of thing a KKK member would do.

143 posted on 06/03/2003 6:01:50 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Warren Harding was far more progressive on racial issues than was his predecessor, Democrat President Woodrow Wilson. That KKK charge is bogus.
148 posted on 06/03/2003 7:03:33 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Sorry to disappoint you, but a friend has a book on Klan history (not a friendly history either). I've seen the pictures.
167 posted on 06/04/2003 1:51:33 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can)
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