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In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled to steer the country — and especially the South — forward in the wake of Jim Crow laws and racial violence.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office.Apart from the well-known Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations, James Garfield was shot in 1881, and died from an infection caused by poor hygiene in the operating theatre, while William McKinley died of gangrene in 1901 after being shot in the abdomen.But there have been more than a dozen other attempted assassinations – including that of President Gerald Ford who was the target on two occasions just a couple of weeks apart.On September 5, 1975, Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme took a Colt M1911 pistol to the California State Capitol building, where Ford was making a speaking engagement.Ex-convict Thomas Elbert had