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Reagan visits black family at their Maryland home rallying for civil rights
President Reagan flew to College Park Woods to visit Barbara and Phillip Butler, printers in the Government Printing Office, after reading a cross burning incident that shook their suburban Maryland neighborhood. He told reporters he might call attention to the act and expressed regret that such prejudice has a place in the country.
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