The Nation - News from Sept. 9, 1987
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President Reagan “ranks at the bottom” among U.S. presidents, while history will eventually view Harry S. Truman as one of the best, says Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. In an interview to be broadcast Sunday on Washington’s WUSA-TV, Marshall said his low opinion of Reagan stems from an erosion of civil rights under the current Administration. “I don’t care whether he’s the President, the governor, the mayor, the sheriff. Whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation or decency,” said Marshall, the first black on the Supreme Court.
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