To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ronald Reagan’s son Michael wrote an opinion piece for Fox News’ website in which he argues that his father was a better “friend” to black Americans than Barack Obama.Starting with a riff on the old notion of Bill Clinton as the country’s “first black president,” Reagan writes that he “could make an even stronger case for my father, Ronald Reagan, as ‘our first black president.’–but I won’t make that claim.”
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