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President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Lou Cannon, 1991, 2000, page 459:

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' . . . The president was so cut off from the counsel of black Americans that he sometimes did not even realize when he was offending them. One glaring example occurred early in 1982 when Reagan sided with Bob Jones University of Greenville, South Carolina, and the Goldsboro Christian Schools of Goldsboro, North Carolina, in a lawsuit to obtain federal tax exemptions that had been denied them by the Internal Revenue Service. . . '
At issue was whether or not religious schools which engaged in racial discrimination could still receive tax exempt status as a nonprofit.
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