Now becoming an awkward topic of conversation in these sensitive days: as a freshman senator in 1975 Joe Biden voted to restore Robert E. Lee’s US citizenship.
Joe was quick to explain that the gift to Lee seemed like the thing to do, because “kung fu movies were quite popular back then”.
Kloset Klansman Kook Biden.
But I don’t think that’s why they call him “Ol’ Stonewall.”