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.
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with... WE WEAR THE MASK by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
