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Presidential candidate Bill Bradley |
Los Angeles, California--Bill Bradley, following a successful day of
campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination in California,
appeared on Larry King Live Tuesday night and his very first telephone
question came from a caller who claimed to be ex-military and who objected
to Bradley's stand on gays in the military, asking him to reconsider his position.
Bradley refused to reconsider. |
King asked him directly to describe his stand. Bradley replied:
"Gays have always been in the military. They've just had
to hide. We've, since 1993, had a policy that doesn't work. It's
called 'don't ask, don't tell.'
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"And what I can't understand is how is it possible that gays can serve
openly and with distinction in the Department of Justice, in the State
Department, in the Treasury Department, in the federal courts, in the
Congress, in the White House and not in the military.
"Why can gays be policemen, brick layers, football players, lawyers,
nuclear scientists, but can't be staff sergeants or lieutenants?
"I believe that we have to reach out to everybody. I think that, you
know, you do it, as I said. The method and timing of this would be my own.
Of course, I would be in consultation with many different people in this
process."
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King asked: "You're not going to change your mind? "
The former Senator replied: "Method and timing will be what I choose."
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