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[[Harry Truman]], a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, wrote a letter to his own wife condemning blacks and Orientals.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/fbpa/index.php?documentid=HST-FBP_1-21_01&documentVersion=both</ref>
[[Harry Truman]], a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, wrote a letter to his own wife condemning blacks and Orientals.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/fbpa/index.php?documentid=HST-FBP_1-21_01&documentVersion=both</ref>
===John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson===
[[John F. Kennedy]] admired Hitler,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340596/JFK-s-diary-reveals-deep-fascination-Adolf-Hitler.html</ref> and his father Joe opposed US entry into World War II out of anti-Semitism.
[[John F. Kennedy]] admired Hitler,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340596/JFK-s-diary-reveals-deep-fascination-Adolf-Hitler.html</ref> and his father Joe opposed US entry into World War II out of anti-Semitism.
[[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said "I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years." While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref>
[[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said "I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years." While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref>