Bush Backs Race-Based Program Justice Dept. urges the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action for contractors
ÊBy ERIC LICHTBLAU, Times Staff Writer
August 11, 2001
WASHINGTON -- In the most closely watched affirmative action case in recent years, the Bush administration on Friday defended a federal program that uses race as a factor to create a "level playing field" in doling out billions of dollars in government contracts. The Justice Department's position, coming in a case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear in the fall, marked a departure from President Bush's past opposition to government racial preferences.
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/litchblau.html
LOL...I'll wait until I see more from AMERICAN news sources.