Presidential candidates’ support overcame Reagan’s cost and claims-waiver objections

Evidence

All this occurred against the backdrop of the 1988 presidential campaign. Leading candidates Vice President George H. W. Bush, Gov. Michael Dukakis, and Rev. Jesse Jackson all endorsed the redress legislation. Their unified support boxed in the Reagan administration, which still had concerns about the bill’s price tag. They wanted redress payments to be spread out over a longer period, from five to ten years, as well as a provision that restricted anyone who took payments from retaining any claims against the federal government. They also wanted to limit annual appropriations to $500 million. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 230

Categorization

• XREF: The claims-waiver provision is directly analogous to the release-and-waiver terms central to structuring Black reparations, a key legal-brief detail.