[Grand Old Partisan]

Warren Harding was far more progressive on racial issues than was his predecessor, Democrat President Woodrow Wilson. That KKK charge is bogus.

[Diddle E. Squat]

That's an understatement. Did not Woodrow Wilson(who so many liberal historians declare as perhaps the greatest president ever) institute civil service reforms that barred Blacks from those jobs? IIRC, during Teddy Roosevelts tenure Blacks had begun to hold govt positions and move up the ladder, only to be knocked off by Woodrow Wilson.