Now would this be the Clinton "10,000 cops on the street" unfunded mandate to the states? (I guess that was an earlier version of keep public unions employed.)
His push was on compainies as well; I finished school when BJ came into office, and an increasing number of apllications were asking your ethnicity & gender. The big accounting firms, which in the past had recruited at Accounting Society events, instead started recruiting only at NABA (National Association of Black Accountants) functions.
This was the beginning of the slippery slope, which brought us to where we are today: whites need not apply (at least the guys), and you will get telemarketing calls from Americans that you can barely understand...