In any event, visas were denied over the years to major intellectual figures like Graham Greene, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes.
"I find that a lot of claims are denied over things like the doctor's signature is missing, or the form wasn't dated, or the [procedure] code is missing, but they don't tell the insured this," he says.
Access has typically been denied over weekends and holidays, when members of the public are looking forward to getting out on the Potomac.
"We are denying over half the people of this country the greatest source of wealth, which is gains in the stock market".
But when one of the first histories of motion pictures was written, Muybridge was denied credit all over again.
The longtime mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, was denied control over federal spending because, several historians have written, he did not turn out numbers for Roosevelt as Hague and other allies did.
During Mr. Bush's last year in office, Israel sought — and was denied, again over Mr. Cheney's objections — the bunker-busting bombs and other equipment it needed to carry out an effective strike on Iran.
A people who suffered so completely from a racist ideology, and whose very existence was denied for over a century, now have to face once more their recurrent, mocking fate: the derision of a world that, in the end, still thinks they don't exist.
When Ms. Nannery began crusading for the stamp in 1994, her request to the United States Postal Service was denied 27 times over 17 months.
"The fact that Kesha was denied her freedom over sexual abuse, I see it as what happens to everyone else that gets abused," Correia, 22, said.
