“Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.”

Speech https://books.google.com/books?id=POhHuoGILNYC&pg=PA51 (12 April 1921).
1920s

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American politician, 29th president of the United States (i… 1865–1923

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