His 1901 White House dinner with Booker T. Washington was played up on his 1904 presidential campaign
In 1901, the year that both Jacob Riis and Booker T. Washington published... [DOC] [TLE] The Underside of the Welcome Mat - The New York Times [PAR] Nov 8, 2008 ... WASHINGTON  Within days of his inauguration, as Barack Obama and ... of his 
daughters playing on the South Lawn of the White House, ... Booker T. 
Washington in 1901 that set off a poisonous controversy.