In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term. Their position was that Clinton should have integrated the military by executive order, noting that President Harry S. Truman used executive order to racially desegregate the armed forces. Ray's report further stated, 'there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official was involved' in seeking the files.On September 21, 1996, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage for federal purposes as the legal union of one man and one woman; the legislation allowed individual states to refuse to recognize gay marriages that were performed in other states.