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Franklin D. Roosevelt

While secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt launched an investigation into claims of male Navy personnel having relations with other men. And while president, he sent more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps and later opposed anti-lynching legislation.

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Jimmy Carter

In 1976, Carter said "there's nothing wrong 'ethnic purity' " when talking about homogeneous neighborhoods — of any race or ethnicity — that he preferred to keep homogeneous.  He later apologized.

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Lyndon Johnson

The nation's civil rights hero — the president helped usher historic civil rights acts through Congress — was also a racist, notes his biographer, Robert Caro, often using the "n word" to describe the 1957 Civil Rights Act.