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Did Bill Clinton use a Confederate flag for his 1992 campaign?

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Bill Clinton and Al Gore do appear on Confederate flag buttons from the 1992 presidential campaign, but the campaign denies that it approved or printed them. Photos of two Confederate flag-themed buttons went viral after Dylann Roof, a self-described white supremacist, murdered nine black people who had gathered for bible study at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. read more

Not only is the premise false, but in fact the keynote speaker at the Democrats’ 1992 convention was Governor Zell Miller, who was best known nationally at the time for trying to remove Confederate symbolism from Georgia’s state flag. read more

Campaign buttons for the 1992 Clinton-Gore national ticket bearing a Confederate flag background are of uncertain provenance. read more

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