Opinion: Barack Obama signs civil rights oral history bill, quietly

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Here’s a White House photograph released today of President Obama signing a bill with a bunch of congressional VIPs gathered around. All happen to be Democrats.

The bill, H.R. 586, requires the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institution to establish a civil rights oral history program.

But because the signing of the oral history measure wasn’t really a public event, we don’t really have an oral history of it.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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