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Reagan visits Maryland home of black couple over Klan cross
President Reagan and aides discuss responding to a 1977 cross burning near the Butler family in College Park. He visits Bara and Phillip Butler, printers at the Government Printing Office, to hear their story and condemn such acts. The trip follows his support for a Senate vote to extend the Voting Rights Act.
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