Scholarship
Hawai'i and the White House
On November 23, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed Public Law 103-150, also known as the "Apology Resolution," in the Oval Office—a rare example of bipartisan accountability for a previous wrongdoing at the highest level of government.1 The subject? America’s involvement in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy one hundred years earlier. But to fully understand this legislation's significance, one must unde