"The White House is now so saturated with the odor of the nigger that the rats had taken refuge in the stable."
— Nigger

January 1, 1970

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James Vardaman's remark regarding Booker T. Washington's meeting with Theodore Roosevelt on October 16, 1901, as quoted in Lusane, Clarence (23 January 2013). The Black History of the White House. City Lights Publishers. p. 254.