Presidential power  With Hollywood zeal, time and again Ronald
Reagan propagandists kept propping him on his perilous
presidential pedestal.  In her recent book, "And Justice For
All," former leading member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Marie Louise Berry relates how that president thumbed his nose
not only at concerned voters, but also at federal elected
legislators.  "Six commissioners had voted to send a telegram to
Reagan asking him to sign the Civil Rights Restoration Act,"
Berry reminds readers.  Instead, with presidential flourish, he
vetoed that Act. In short order, as Berry recalls, the U.S.
Congress overrode his veto.  Even so, it wasn't the only time
that president locked horns with civil rights leaders, Berry
notes.  In October 1983, Reagan made national headlines by
firing the civil rights commissioners, including Berry. She and
her colleagues immediately filed a suit against the president
and asked for an injunction "against his attack on the
independence of the commission."  Despite tumul