[windsorknot]

the first black president should be front and center.

Bill Clinton?

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe Warren G. Harding. Someone started a rumor about one of Harding’s ancestors to the effect that he had black ancestry. I think Harding was asked about it and said that he didn’t know. (Harding, by the way, had the courage to go to the South as President and speak out against segregation.)