Who's been the best Democratic president in your lifetime?

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92. Wilson was the most prominent racist to occupy the White House.

While president of Princeton University, Wilson tried to stop blacks from even applying for admission.

The Wilson administration established official segregation in most federal government offices, in some departments for the first time since 1863. New facilities were designed to keep the races working there separated. The historian Eric Foner says, "His administration imposed full racial segregation in Washington and hounded from office considerable numbers of black federal employees."

When a delegation of blacks protested the discriminatory actions, Wilson told them "segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen." In 1914, he told The New York Times, "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it."

The very first movie ever shown at the White House was done by Wilson. It was the KKK epic "The Birth of a Nation".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson