Biden orders flags be flown at half-staff through Dec. 9 to honor Dole
Source: The Hill
President Biden has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff through Dec. 9 to honor late Kansas Sen. Bob Dole (R), who died on Sunday.
Biden said in a proclamation that flags shall be flown half-staff at the White House and all public grounds and military posts in the country throughout Thursday.
I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations, Biden said in his statement.
Dole, a former senator and presidential candidate, died early Sunday at the age of 98.
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Polybius
(15,433 posts)Biden is showing class and respect.
NoRethugFriends
(2,314 posts)Just because he wasn't quite as bad as some of the others doesn't make him worthy.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Bob Dole being the sole voice of the Republican Party on network news and all he ever did was bitch about taxes.
Happy winter storm week, everyone.
KYEG......
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)He needed Dole's gravitas and experience with extensive injury to get it through from a thought to a law.
Wed Feb 7, 2018: Justin Dart, who was the force behind the ADA, was a friend of Ron and Nancy.
It's the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Signed into law in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
A leading force behind the ADA was Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr.
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Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr. (August 29, 1930 June 22, 2002) was an American activist and advocate for people with disabilities. He helped to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, co-founded the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), and is regarded as the "Godfather of the ADA."
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Background
Dart came from a wealthy Chicago family. His father, Justin Whitlock Dart, Sr., was President of Dart Industries. His mother, Ruth Walgreen Dart, was the daughter of Walgreen founder Charles R. Walgreen and his wife, Myrtle Walgreen. Justin's brother Peter Dart also developed polio.
Dart contracted polio in 1948 before entering the University of Houston, where he earned undergraduate degrees in history and education in 1954; however, the university refused to give him a teaching certificate because of his disability. The university is now home to the Justin Dart, Jr. Center for Students with Disabilities, a facility designed for students who have any type of temporary or permanent health impairment, physical limitation, psychiatric disorder, or learning disability.
Activism
During his time at the University of Houston, which was then segregated, Dart organized the first student group to oppose racism.
After graduating, Dart was a successful entrepreneur who founded three Japanese corporations, but in 1967 he gave up the corporate life to devote himself to the rights of people with disabilities, working in Texas and Washington, D.C. as a member of various state and federal disability commissions. In 1972, Dart switched from identifying as a Democrat to become a Republican.
He opposed the efforts of President Ronald Reagan, a personal friend of the Dart family, to revise the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, and in 1981 accepted an appointment from President Reagan to be the vice-chair of the National Council on Disability.
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yaesu
(8,020 posts)LT Barclay
(2,606 posts)Then during Clinton's presidency as Senate Majority Leader he was against everything. The democrats could have found a solution to every problem in the world or even a simple fix for a small one and he would have been against it.
I couldn't quite figure out why until he announced his bid for the presidency.
I had no respect for him after that.
twodogsbarking
(9,759 posts)What you wrote is spot on.