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Joe Biden, former vice president

“When, I started off as a kid, a young man in high school [was], uh, dealing with the issue. I got involved — I wasn’t any great shakes — but got involved in the civil rights movement. Desegregating restaurants, that kind of thing.”

Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios

Washington Post says: We can identify one incident involving Biden that can possibly be deemed an effort at desegregating a restaurant. Biden’s use of plural —“restaurants” — cannot be confirmed.