“That is just total nonsense and anybody who believes that is an idiot or a liar. The race issue was a fundamental problem. It was just a cancer on American society from day one.”

Regarding claims that the American Civil War was not about slavery; "After Words with Bruce Bartlett" http://www.c-span.org/video/?204475-1/words-bruce-bartlett (7 April 2008), C-SPAN
2000s

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