Reagan shuns Klan’s election favour
NZPA-AFP Washington President Ronald Reagan, who two weeks ago was endorsed for re-election by the Ku Klux Klan, has formally dissociated himself from the racist organistion, saying that he had “no tolerance whatsoever for what the Klan represents.” “Indeed, I resent their even using my name,” Mr Reagan said in a letter to Morris Abrams, a member of the United States Civil
Rights Commission, which was made public yesterday. Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the K.K.K., had called on members of the organisation to vote for Mr Reagan in the November elections, saying, “The K.K.K. and the Administration share some of the same beliefs.” The platform of Mr Reagan’s Republican Party was “pure Klan,” he said.
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Press, 3 May 1984, Page 10
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