Statement on Signing a Bill Amending the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
October 27, 1986
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I am signing H.J. Res. 17, a joint resolution that gives the United States consent to a number of amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act that were adopted by the State of Hawaii between August 21, 1959, and June 30, 1985. This consent is necessary because section 4 of the Act to Provide for the Admission of Hawaii into the Union, Public Law 86-3, 73 Stat. 4 (1959), requires that amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act be approved by the National Government. I am signing this joint resolution because I believe, as the Department of the Interior testified when the resolution was pending, that the matters with which the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act is concerned should be left entirely to the State of Hawaii. The administration of the public lands in question can be competently handled by the State government.
I also wish to express another concern. Because the act employs an express racial classification in providing that certain public lands may be leased only to persons having "not less than one-half of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778," the continued application of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, Haw. Rev. Stat. 201 et seq. (1976), raises serious equal protection questions. These difficulties are exacerbated by the amendment that reduces the native-blood requirement to one-quarter, thereby casting additional doubt on the original justification for the classification. While I am signing this resolution because it substantially defers to the State's judgment, I urge that the Congress amend section 4 of the Act to Provide for the Admission of Hawaii into the Union so that in the future the State of Hawaii may amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act without the consent of the United States and give further consideration to the justification for the troubling racial classification.
Note: H.J. Res. 17, approved October 27, was assigned Public Law No. 99-557.
Citation: Ronald Reagan:"Statement on Signing a Bill Amending the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act ," October 27, 1986.Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=36659.
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I will be going out to the homeless situation at Keeau's today with people from UH so that there be an understanding of what is happening out here and how our own people can be inflitrated and reduced to 'incorrigible' people when in fact they are so talented and wise.
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"And during Reagan's first term, homelessness became a visible problem in America's urban centers, leading many to blame Reaganomics.[32] In the closing weeks of his presidency, Reagan told the New York Times that the homeless "make it their own choice for staying out there."[33] Political opponents chided his policies as "Trickle-down economics", due to the significant cuts in the upper tax brackets.[34]"
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Reagan on Homelessness: Many Choose to Live in the Streets
Published: December 23, 1988
In an interview broadcast tonight, President Reagan dismissed the idea that his Administration bears any responsibility for the problem of homelessness and he said ''there are always going to be people'' who live in the streets by choice.
''They make it their own choice for staying out there,'' Mr. Reagan said in a farewell interview with David Brinkley of ABC News. ''There are shelters in virtually every city, and shelters here, and those people still prefer out there on the grates or the lawn to going into one of those shelters.''
As he has in the past, the President said that ''a large proportion'' of the homeless population is ''mentally impaired,'' and consists of people dismissed from institutions as a result of lawsuits brought by such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union. The President added that these former mental patients, once released, ''walked away from those institutions - they wanted freedom, but they walked out to where there was nothing for them.''
Stephen P. Shipley, was the very person that I argued with on the table at Hawaiian Homes. Regardless of who else was in that room, I continued my assertion of what exist and that we needed to move on with our purpose and that was to Rehabilitate ourselves on to Hawaiian land with the origin of the definition of who we are since the programs inception!
Truthfully, other Hawaiians and non Hawaiians were sitting in that room arguing to the contrary or for the 1980 Reaganomics.
Thus, the compromise and birthing of Kapolei second city and how Hawaiian Homestead became part of the developers burden.
Now who on this Maoliworld argues the same voice of Presidents' assertion about it being a race issue under the label of Independence and Hawaiian Kingdom?
We can easily lose our rights to water people, if we don't really pay attention to Food Security and the real basis of their argument. We need to ask for an exit plan in case of emergency by man or natural disasters!
Appointment of the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Members of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission
September 11, 1981
The President today announced his intention to appoint the following individuals as members of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission. The President intends to designate Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i as Chairman and Stephen P. Shipley as Vice Chairman. In addition, he announced that he is calling for the first meeting to be held on September 23, 1981.
Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i is minority leader of the Hawaii House of Representatives. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1974. She served as State chairman of the Reagan-Bush campaign in Hawaii in 1980. Mrs. Kamali'i was born October 24, 1930, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Stephen P. Shipley is executive assistant to the Secretary of the Interior. Previously he was vice president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation in Denver, Colo., and assistant manager of the Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy. Mr. Shipley was born June 27, 1945, in Jackson, Wyo.
Winona K. D. Beamer is currently retired from Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii. She is a Hawaiian scholar of music and dance with an extensive background in the composition of Hawaiian music (contemporary and ancient). Mrs. Beamer was born August 15, 1923, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
H. Rodger Betts is corporation counsel for the County of Maul. Previously he was General Counsel of the Community Services Administration and an aide to Senator Hiram Fong (R-Hawaii). Mr. Betts was born July 18, 1924, in Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii.
Carol E. Dinkins is currently Assistant Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice. Prior to her present post, she was principal associate and adjunct assistant professor of law at the University of Houston. Mrs. Dinkins was born November 9, 1945, in Corpus Christi, Tex.
James C. Handley is special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. Previously he was assistant director of the Office of Personnel, Governor's Office, State of Illinois. Mr. Handley was born December 28, 1943, in Tuscola, Ill.
Diane K. Morales is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Territorial and International Affairs, Department of the Interior. Previously she worked with a marketing firm in Houston, Tex. Miss Morales was born July 11, 1946, in Houston, Tex.
Glenn R. Schleede is Executive Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget. Prior to this position, he was senior vice president of the National Coal Association. Mr. Schleede was born June 12, 1933, in Lyons, N.Y.
Citation: Ronald Reagan:"Appointment of the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Members of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission ," September 11, 1981.Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44233.
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