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Reagan didn't sign "the order creating the Dr. Martin Luther King national holiday"-he resisted demands from Dems for a federal MLK holiday, said it was too costly & be inappropriate, & let Senate republicans filibuster before buckling to political pressure & signing the bill.
May, 1982: Reagan was sympathetic, but it's a slippery slope to too many federal holidays! 
August 2, 1983: the Democratic House finally passes an MLK holiday bill, but the Reagan administration still opposed it, citing how much shutting down the government for a day would cost. #VisionaryLeadership
