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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (36571)	7/26/2008 10:52:50 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 224737

60 years ago today, on July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed executive order 9981 directing the desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Like Colin Powell, I was 11 years old at the time. I remember That summer, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the Democrats put a plank in the platform calling for the desegration of the Armed Forces. The DixieCrats walked out in Anger and formed their own party with Strom Thurmond as their candidate.