Governor Phil Murphy told reporters this afternoon that he has scrapped the regular use of a desk formerly used by former New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, a former U.S. president and founder of the League of Nations.

“I did swap out my desk at the end of the week,” Murphy said. “The country is having a reckoning. Woodrow Wilson and his legacy is being swept up in that, as it should be. …As soon as I could get a replacement, I got one.”

Wilson’s racism is well-documented.

According to The Atlantic:

As president, Wilson oversaw unprecedented segregation in federal offices. It’s a shameful side to his legacy that came to a head one fall afternoon in 1914 when he threw the civil-rights leader William Monroe Trotter out of the Oval Office.

Murphy’s decision to junk Wilson’s desk represented a double weekend hit for the only New Jersey pol to cut his professional teeth in this state ever to become president.

This past Saturday, Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, announced that the university, after years of debate and pursuant to a vote of its trustees, is removing from its nationally renowned school of public policy the name of former United States President Woodrow Wilson.