stetson kennedy you know was something of a legend i've heard about him for many many years and he was a guy who worked with congress in all kinds of racist groups to try neuter the klan infiltrated the klan and infiltrate it very very effectively and i think it's a great mistake to think about the klan in terms of a few nuts or french people who are psychopaths. racism has been a part of the american system and as far back as you can go. and the question was simply didn't care or just unfortunate arm of it. in the mid one nine hundred twenty s. the klan and over four million members you know at a time when the country was much much smaller than the klan in the twenty's controlled state governorships they controlled big politicians it was really quite different i recorded a deathbed statement to phone or imperial. president warren harding into the klan and the ceremony in the green room of the white house. should he was so nervous. the left in the car and the president harding had just been for the white house bubble. the token of appreciation provan harding gave old number of election