How Trump's pardon of a boxer beat Obama to the punch
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
May 27, 2018
3 minutes
As President Donald Trump ended an almost-century-long campaign by granting a pardon to Jack Johnson, the unfairly convicted boxing champion, a question hung in many minds like a ghost: Why didn't President Barack Obama do it when he had the chance?
If it slipped anyone's notice as to who was beating whom to the punch in honoring the first African American world heavyweight boxing champ, the current president was happy to remind us:
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