George H. W. Bush Quotes
We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
Bush, George H. W. "Address to the Nation on the Civil Disturbances in Los Angeles, California." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, Book I. US Government Printing Office, 1993, p. 685.
5 New York City—Staten Island--police officers were arresting a large unarmed Black man, and one of them used a “choke hold” which was against Departmental Regulations. The man cried out several times that he was having trouble breathing and he was choking, until he was choked to death. The coroner ruled that a crime had been committed and the death was a homicide. However, the Staten Island District Attorney and his Grand Jury refused to even indict the officer that did the choking. Staten Island was a very conservative, white enclave in New York City. See {642459}.
This was a very courageous speech for the President to give. Senator Hubert Humphrey had proposed civil rights legislation. At the time most of the racial conservative members of Congress were Democrats and not Republicans as they would become after Civil Rights legislation actually passed in 1964. There was little possibility that the civil rights law would pass as the Southern Democrats could filibuster it in the Senate. None the less Truman supported the legislation and the principle of equal rights despite the fact that he was a Southerner and he knew he would lose the support of the conservative wing of his party.
Barnett actually served jail time for his “slander” of America.
This is one of the major reasons that the relations between police and the communities they are policing is so important. Also, the style and courtesy that the IRS tax collectors exhibit is very important.
This is one of the earliest public positions taken against the legal prohibition on interracial marriage. On this issue, even the vast majority of the Northerners were against her. The “commonwealth” to which she refers, is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Note that freedom of choice then meant the freedom to choose of marriage partners without regard to race. A century later, it became the freedom to choose the medical procedures that a woman would be subjected to.
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician, diplomat and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, Bush also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence.
