Thank you for a thoughtful and well expressed comment on facts. You could add that Republicans, led by Senator Everett Dirksen, made the 1964 Civil Rights legislation become a reality.
Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, “Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.” He continued, “The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!”
A cloture vote was taken. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the 20th century’s towering legislative achievements. Republican votes made cloture possible, in the face of Democratic Party opposition.
Excellent point.
With history being and already rewritten by the Left ... today’s students will never know this. Unless some ‘old geezers’ start telling them ... even when they don’t want to listen.