The last great thing.....

Lyndon Johnson, despite some obvious faults, was the architect of the Civil Rights Act, or should I say he used his famous clout to shepard it through Congress. He did so after one of his staff, who was black, related how he and his family had to drive straight through from Mississippi to Michigan without stopping because there were few if any accommodations along the way that would accept "*******" and they were afraid of being beaten or killed by locals if they stopped at the ones that did. They also had to carry all their food and water for the trip to avoid the possibility that they would cause a riot if they tried to eat on the road.

Ol' Lyndon may have been a dirty, underhanded snake, but he knew how to get things done and he DID have a soul and a sense of humanity, no matter how diminished.
 
Lyndon Johnson, despite some obvious faults, was the architect of the Civil Rights Act, or should I say he used his famous clout to shepard it through Congress. He did so after one of his staff, who was black, related how he and his family had to drive straight through from Mississippi to Michigan without stopping because there were few if any accommodations along the way that would accept "*******" and they were afraid of being beaten or killed by locals if they stopped at the ones that did. They also had to carry all their food and water for the trip to avoid the possibility that they would cause a riot if they tried to eat on the road.

Ol' Lyndon may have been a dirty, underhanded snake, but he knew how to get things done and he DID have a soul and a sense of humanity, no matter how diminished.

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