WASHINGTON, : US President Bill Clinton (C) listens to William Carl King (L), great-grandnephew of Henry O. Flipper, whose portrait appears at right, during a ceremony 19 February at the White House in Washington, DC. Clinton pardoned Henry O. Flipper, West Point’s first African-American graduate, who, in a racially motivated case more than a century ago, was dishonorably discharged from the military, convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer. AFP PHOTO/Chris KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)