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To: Truthoverpower

Yes, but if he had lived long enough he would have undoubtedly and unquestionably become a leftist progressive like his brother. His devotion to the Democrat party was much greater than his devotion for the principles which he embraced and stood for in 1960. His party changed, and so would have he...


3 posted on 11/22/2018 11:10:57 AM PST by nwrep
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JFK had no chance of passing Civil Rights legislation with the entrenched southern democrats distrusting the Massachusetts liberal.

It took LBJ who twisted arms and threatened them, and the votes of almost all republicans to pass the Civil Rights Act.

29 posted on 11/22/2018 11:52:22 AM PST by AU72
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