Clarence Thomas's first public scandal came in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister just waited by the mailbox for her welfare check

Clarence Thomas's first public scandal came in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister just waited by the mailbox for her welfare check

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Then-Washington Post journalist Juan Williams, now at Fox News, wrote a column about Clarence Thomas that outraged liberals but got Ronald Reagan's attention.

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