COLORADO: Statesmanship

Colorado's Anglo-Irish Governor John C. Vivian permitted a bill designating Oct. 9 as Leif Ericson Day, in honor of the "discovery of North America in 1000 A.D.," to become law without his signature. Reasons: 1) Colorado's Scandinavians would be mad if he vetoed it; 2) Colorado's Italians would be mad if he signed it.

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