Guest of honor
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.
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