Constitutional Government

[H2O Man]

8. Thank you!

The list of imperfect politicians is vast. The racism of some presidents is worthy of discussion in some contexts -- for example, if the OP was about Harry Truman, and someone noted that he was in the KKK in early adulthood, that could be important in a conversation about bombing Japan, or Truman's initiating the US support for France trying to re-claim Vietnam after the war. For even as president, Truman said that "yellow people" were not ready for democracy.

Or, if we were discussing Senator Robert Byrd's going on the floor to demand that Martin Luther King, Jr., be incarcerated in advance of his proposed Poor People's Campaign, his former KKK membership would be an appropriate thing to mention. But in a discussion of Byrd's 2004 book, "Losing America," which focused upon our venturing away from the Constitution, it would strike me as curious if someone could not appreciate the message because of a speech he gave 36 years earlier.