CNN Inside Politics With Abby Phillip February 20, 2022 13:54:00
Lbj came up through the political ranks in texas, first a congressman and then a senator. if you didn't toe the line in jim crow and segregation, you simply weren't viable. lyndon johnson had to do that. it wasn't in his heart i'm confident. when he did have the power to make a difference on civil rights, when he became the all powerful majority leader in the senate, perhaps the most powerful majority leader we've ever had, he pushed through the 1957 civil rights act, largely impotent, but for its san francisco as being the first civil rights legislation to go through since reconstruction. but...
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