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To: MtnClimber
In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s administration arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned him for sedition. Debs had to run his 1920 campaign from his cell in a federal prison.

President Warren G. Harding, a conservative Republican, sprung him with a presidential pardon.

7 posted on 11/15/2025 5:47:32 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

And Debs met with him in the White House and they got along!


8 posted on 11/15/2025 5:55:53 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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