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David's version of how he came to his 'racialist' views begins as a freshman in high school. 'In those days I held liberal views because that's the pabulum that's fed to you,' he says now. 'Then one day a teacher assigned me to take the anti-integration argument in a report because she knew I was for it, and I finally found books like Race and Reason by Carlton Putnam, and that book had a big influence on me.'...The staff at Clifton Ganus School, where Duke was given the assignment he now sees as an epiphany, has been doing a lot of soul searching ever since Duke began to tell this story.
Yesterday, the party moved quickly once again to disassociate itself from Duke. Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson declared: 'There is no room in the party of Lincoln for a Klansman like David Duke.'
As a student at LSU, [David] Duke wrote letters to the National Socialist White People's Party, the group formerly known as the American Nazi Party. These Nazis invited Duke to their annual conference in Virginia and suggested that he carpool with two other white supremacists. Here's the author, Eli Saslow. One of them was about his age. A guy named Joseph Paul Franklin. The other was about two or three years younger. A guy named Don Black. And they piled into this car and started driving, you know, at 800 miles up the highway. And over the course of those hours, these three kids became really close.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Yesterday, the party moved quickly once again to disassociate itself from Duke. Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson declared: 'There is no room in the party of Lincoln for a Klansman like David Duke.'