President Obama is Hardly the first U.S. President to say “nigger”

Facts by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama raised eyebrows and took some heat for using the word “nigger” publicly. But he’s far from the first U.S. President to utter the word to make their point. A point in their usage of the pejorative slur that is far different than the one President Obama sought to make about bigotry and hate in using the slur.
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*Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to Eleanor famously said of his trip to Jamaica how “a drink of coconut water, procured by a naked nigger boy from the top of the tallest tree, did much to make us forget the dust.”

*President Truman called Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell the "nigger preacher"

*President Johnson during the 1950s called a civil rights bill "the nigger bill

*President Eisenhower in a parody of a southern army buddy reportedly used the "nigger" a couple of times.

*President Nixon in a conversation with Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly used the word "nigger"

We can only imagine how many times U.S. Presidents named and unnamed used the word “nigger” privately with no prying ears or eyes around.