CNN Wolf April 10, 2014 17:31:00
Congress, pushed and supported by a movement of those willing to sacrifice everything for their own liberation president johnson fought for and argued and horse traded and bully ied d persuaded until ultimately he signed the civil rights act into law. and he didn't stop there. even though his advisors again told him to wait, again told him, let the dust settle. let the country absorb this momentous decision. he shook them off. the meat in the coconut, as president johnson would put it, was the voting rights act.
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