George H.W. Bush: “I clearly salute today, as I have in the past, his contribution to the enormous political reforms that have taken place.”

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.

President George H. W. Bush signed it.

I understand Americans are angry and frustrated. But we do not need someone in the oval office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration.