Former President Bill Clinton referenced the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a young man during his eulogy for the longtime senator this afternoon in West Virginia. Clinton was the only speaker to reference this dark chapter of Byrd’s history, which has been a topic of much discussion over the years.
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