Harry Truman was also a member of the Klan. It did not mean the same thing in the 30s as it does now.
I am slightly related to Senator Byrd. A little closer related to the one from Virginia. Byrd was adopted but still kin to the Byrds.
He wasn’t as bad as some of the really hard core leftists but he was bad enough.
Robert Byrd said that he CONTINUED to use the word nigger and defended that by saying there are white niggers too.