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49 years ago today january 22nd, 1973 "the washington post" dubbed that day as, quote, the day that changed america. abroad you had henry kissinger flying to paris. back home in texas, former president lyndon b. johnson died at the age of 64. his legacy, of course, as everyone remembers was shaped by signing the civil rights act and the voting rights act that effectively expanded our nation's democracy and made it more inclusive of people to vote and in the nation's capital on that very same day, the supreme court issued its landmark ruling on abortion rights in roe versus wade protecting a wo...

Abroad you had henry kissinger flying to paris. back home in texas, former president lyndon b. johnson died at the age of 64. his legacy, of course, as everyone remembers was shaped by signing the civil rights act and the voting rights act that effectively expanded our nation's democracy and made it more inclusive of people to vote and in the nation's capital on that very same day, the supreme court issued its landmark ruling on abortion rights in roe versus wade protecting a woman's constitutional right to choose. now here we are on this day almost five decades later voting and abortion right...