07/14/2009
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"We finally got to 1968--Fair Housing Act--when there was the great tragedy of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr."
"I take that as the functionally equivalent to affirmative action, which I enforced as a part of the 1964 Equal Employment Opportunity Act."
"We have had success from other equality acts passed; largely, the ones in the 1960's."
"I think it was perfectly appropriate to have a high representative of the NAACP at--on this panel, first, to indicate that hate appears to be of a piece."