I know, but it has puzzled me ever since I saw the voting switch data, in 1936 it was a complete reversal and it never went back, maybe his statement wasn’t as meaningful as it sounds and it was just crude way to praise the bill’s politics even though it sounds so profound to our ears.
LBJ understood the power of pork very very well!
Example, remember the movie “The Right Stuff”. The scene were LBJ as VP puts on the big carnival like extravaganza to show case him bring the NASA space center to Houston Texas. He shouts “Lookee! Lookee! What I Brought You!”. That scene has always disgusted me even though it’s likely not completely fiction. It’s brilliant cinema! Growing up in WV where at one)time they tried to name everything Byrd!