The Nation - News from July 12, 1985
The nation’s top civil rights official, recently turned down by Congress for a Justice Department promotion, defended the Reagan Administration’s stand against quotas in hiring blacks and women. Assistant Atty. Gen. William Bradford Reynolds told a House subcommittee that although the Administration “enthusiastically endorses†affirmative action, it continues to object on “legal and moral grounds†to race- or gender-based quotas, goals and timetables that “advantage some or disadvantage others.â€
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