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Yes. See, actually what that did was to make clear the positions that he had been taking before the courts on affirmative action, a lot of things[?], and it was difficult to avoid.

Now, also coming back to the issues themselves, not just one broad issue, civil rights, wasn't it true that much--probably a majority of the [Senate Judiciary] Committee is not keen on busing, or quotas, affirmative action quotas. But the strategy which Joseph Biden evolved was to focus on voting rights. That presented the Committee with a little different perspective, did it not?

Yes, and the part of the total pattern.

Yes.

Strategic. It was very strategic, that is they were deliberate--

And you already made reference to President Reagan's attitude toward 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Act--

And his reluctance to deal with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Yes, the renewal of it.

Renewal.