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Originally Posted by slingblade
So you admit Kennedy forced LBJ to pass the bill? But didnt have anything to do with atthe same time. Typical teaparty logic I assume.
Speaking of blinded I think you need another circumcision. You must have gotten shorter over the years.
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From the Chicago Tribune
When President Lyndon Johnson signed the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, 50 years ago this Wednesday, he handed the first pen used to Dirksen. He predicted that posterity would associate Dirksen with a fellow Illinoisan, Abraham
Lincoln. Dirksen's critical role in getting Johnson's bill passed, at long last, put Uncle Sam's
muscle behind the 14th Amendment's guarantee to allcitizens of "the equal protection of the laws."
As to your other claim about JFK forcing LBJ to pass the legislation....JFK was dead by this time and he didn't force anyone to do anything. LBJ used the memory of JFK to sell the legislation but it took a republican to make it happen.