Senate Overrides President Reagan’s Apartheid Veto
On this date in 1986, the United States Senate overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of legislation imposing economic sanctions for Apartheid against South Africa.
I kissed a kiss in youth
Upon a dead man's brow;
And that was long ago-
And I'm a grown man now.
It's lain there in the dust,
Thirty years and more-
My lips that... SCINTILLA by William Stanley Braithwaite.
