He acknowledged that officers' failure to view the hospital's CCTV footage was an "omission" but added that it showed James travelling down a set of steps in the building and he argued that it would not have significantly aided the search, or led them to where his body was found.
After being elected in 1994, he formally pronounced it to be false, while taking modest steps towards making it real: he set up an advisory council on race issues, and appointed Pele, a legendary footballer, as probably Brazil's first black minister.
And that is, we have to take steps as manufacturing jobs have left or as companies find it more profitable to set up shop in some other place, to provide incentives through research and development and manufacturing and exports right here.