President Reagan signed the bill into law on November 2nd. I distinctly remember standing with Sen. Helms in the Republican cloakroom just off the floor of the Senate during the debate, listening to one senator after another approaching him to apologize for the insulting language they had just used about Sen. Helms on the floor. Not a few of the senators assured him they knew he was right about King but what else could they do but denounce Helms and vote for the holiday? Most of them claimed political expediency as their excuse, and I recall one Senate aide chortling that what old Jesse needs to do is get back to North Carolina and try to save his own neck from the coming disaster he had prepared for himself in opposing the King holiday.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:36:43 +0000
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