“We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”

— James G. Watt

Speaking before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983, in reference to members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing
1980s

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United States Secretary of the Interior 1938

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