Gary Franks: George H.W. Bush and Rep. Adam Clayton Powell on civil rights

Bush voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a member of the House and signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1991 as president. His 1964 vote as a congressman probably cost him the election for the Senate soon thereafter in Texas.

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