President and Civil Rights Bill
On June 2 you had a front-page report, quoting President Bush’s address at a West Point graduation event. The message in the purple prose provided by speech writers is probably going to be the major theme in the ’92 campaign: “No quotas.”
Given a shrinking job market and an increasingly qualified pool of minority applicants, the fears of white-male voters, thus threatened, were given the President’s sympathy. He said, to this captive audience of new military officers, that he offered “a more unifying, moral and noble approach” than quotas: i.e., read my rhetoric and vote for me in ’92.
The recent campaign to reelect Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), supported by Bush, used an infamous TV commercial that went like this: A pair of white hands is seen crumpling a job-application form, while a voice complains: “You were the most qualified, but the job had to go to a minority.”
My advice to the current CREEP (Committee to Reelect the President) would be: use the same ad and save some money; just switch candidates.
ALBERT FALKOVE
Glendale
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