Affirmative action redux

[Brian Landsberg]

President Kennedy's Executive Order 10925, issued on March 6, 1961, required federal contractors to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity.  According to Paul Moreno, From Direct Action to Affirmative Action  (LSU Press 1997), p. 186, President Eisenhower's "President's Committee on Government Contracts" "believed it could order affirmative action as a remedy in caes of racial imbalance, regardless of intent to discriminate."

>>> Mark Tushnet <tushnet at LAW.GEORGETOWN.EDU> 03/06 10:38 AM >>>
I'm pretty sure that Johnson used the phrase "affirmative action" in his
Howard University speech in 1967 (I think).  The first employment-related
federal affirmative action program was the Philadelphia Plan, adopted under
Nixon in 1971 (again, I think).  But:  Why is Thurgood Marshall an affirmative
action appointment (as SG) and (for example) Theodore Olsen not?  Marshall had
argued and won more cases before the Supreme Court than Olsen has, etc., etc.

Bill Funk wrote:

> I believe you are wrong.  Lyndon Johnson practiced affirmative action in
> person and supported its application in the agencies.  Remember Thurgood
> Marshall?
>
> Bill Funk
> Lewis & Clark Law School
>
> Lynne Henderson wrote:
>
> > As I recall, it was Pres. Nixon who first took steps for affirmative
> > action in the exec. branch/agencies.  Am I wrong here?
> >
> >
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