------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | New on Goanet's website's A&E section - http://www.goanet.org | | Book in Review: A Kind of Absence - Joao da Veiga Coutinho | | POEM: SUSEGAAD - Cynthia Gomes James | | http://www.goanet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=216 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Chris Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let us also remember ....... the Republicans in > Congress who helped tip the 1964 Civil Rights Act even when Democrats such > as Algore Sr and the Robt Byrd Klaneagle opposed it.
The 1960's made strange alliances as both Republicans and Democrats jockeyed for the African-American vote. However, in the relative civil-rights calm of 1979, "freedom and democracy" loving REPUBLICAN Dick Cheney (now Vice-President) voted against the Martin Luther King holiday. He subsequently voted for it in 1983. How did he spend the holiday yesterday honoring Martin Luther King? In true Halliburton style he travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet his oil business partners. Regards, George
