Affirmative Action and the President

The president creates the impression that "affirmative action" has enabled him, in little rock and washinton to hire record numbers of minorites and women without sacrificing preformance quality. Actually this is not quite what he claims: he does not say that the people he hired through "affirmative action" were as able as those he could have hired withou it. HIs comparison is not between actual selecitions using "affirmative action" and possible selections not using it, but between his own appointments and those of other administrations. Nevertheless, he seems to offer his experience as proof that "affirmative action" increases racial and gender diversi...