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In this photo from 1943, then-Rep. Thomas D\u2019Alesandro Jr. of Maryland is seen at left; at right, is then- Rep. Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n \u00a0(Library of Congress)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n With President Trump cautioning that the drive to purge Confederate statues could represent a slippery slope, the White House has flagged Pelosi’s family history as she fuels the statue opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n Counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted an earlier article from\u00a0RedAlertPolitics<\/a> noting Pelosi’s father’s role.\u00a0<\/p>\n “That’s rich,” she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n CONFEDERATE STATUE FUROR HITS CAPITOL HILL AS PELOSI AND OTHERS SEEK REMOVAL<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Last week, more than a half century after Pelosi\u2019s father honored the Lee-Jackson monument, it was removed from its post along with three other Confederate statues in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore Sun<\/a>. The removal came as numerous monuments were removed, vandalized or otherwise being debated in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a counter-protester was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pelosi\u2019s office did not respond to Fox News\u2019 request for comment on her father\u2019s involvement with one of the Baltimore monuments.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Pelosi, D-Calif., has been outspoken in fueling the backlash toward symbols of the Confederacy. Last week, she urged House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to remove the 10 Confederate statues memorialized on Capitol Hill \u201cimmediately\u201d if \u201cRepublicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked why Pelosi, after serving as House speaker for years, never pushed to remove the 10 figures, her office noted that she directed the relocation of the Robert E. Lee statue from Statuary Hall to the basement of the Capitol, known as the crypt.<\/p>\n \u201cAs Speaker, we relocated Robert E. Lee out of a place of honor in National Statuary Hall \u2013 a place now occupied by the statue of Rosa Parks,\u201d Pelosi said last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t<\/i><\/p>\n![\"Two](\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/politics\/2017\/08\/24\/nancy-pelosis-father-helped-dedicate-confederate-monument\/_jcr_content\/article-text\/article-par-5\/embed_image\/image.img.jpg\/612\/344\/1503607620390.jpg?ve=1tl=1\")
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