a racial restriction that led the internal revenue service, responding to previous court decisions, to take away the university's tax exemption. the school responded by getting president reagan to overrule internal revenue. >> the internal revenue service had actually formed a social law and was enforcing that social law and we think that that's a bad precedent and a bad thing to do. >> yes, very bad. much worse than giving tax exemptions to schools that have racial restrictions on who's allowed to date whom. that social law, meh. yeah, we'll defend that. i mean -- to be clear, there's a reason that news clip we showed you is in color. there was 1982. this was not, like, in the 1940s. the federal government sided with bob jones university on their race ban for dating by