Taliaferro on Ray-gun veto of Nelson Mandela release.

[Senior citizen]

Ray Taliaferro just recounted how retired Congressman Ronald V. Dellums (D)CA, of Oakland, had drawn up legislation cutting off (aid? relations? can't remember) the South African apartheid regime unless Nelson Mandela was released from prison. The legislation passed but was then vetoed by Ray-gun. Dellums rounded up the votes to have Congress override the veto--the only Ray-gun veto that was ever overridden, and Mandela was released after 27 years in prison, to become one of the world's greatest statesmen. Just another of the myriad of filthy deeds Ray-guns memory should be cursed for.

[seventhson]

1. Thanks for the reminder

evil is as evil does.

Promoting apartheid was satanic

[Justice]

2. Great Trivia Question

That is the sort of question (what is the only Reagan veto overridden by Congress?) that will make people's eyes pop out.

[chelsea0011]

3. Funny. I haven't heard this mentioned during the Reagan love fest

[caduceus]

4. I'm not sure it was the only overridden Reagan Veto.

Civil Rights Legislation - laws forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, religion, age, or sex.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared that blacks were citizens and had the same rights as white citizens. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 guaranteed equal rights for blacks in public places. In 1883 the Supreme Court ruled that the states could not deny blacks their civil rights, but that Congress had no jurisdiction over social rights. In 1957 an act set up a Civil Rights Commission to protect the right of blacks to vote, especially in the southern states. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in voting, education, hiring and promotion of workers, and access to hotels, restaurants, theaters, and other public facilities. In March 1988 Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987. The legislation extended antibias laws to entire institutions, making them subject to loss of federal funds if they were found to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, or physical handicap in any of their programs, not just those receiving federal funds.

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_038100_civilrightsl.htm

[Senior citizen]

5. Maybe it was the first one.

Maybe what Taliaferro said was that Congress had never before overridden a Ray-gun veto. Sorry if I got it wrong.

[Veggie Meathead]

6. We should also remember Congressman Cheney who voted

against the release of Nelson Mandela.