There is no question he was a manipulative and obnoxious piece of shit. He once kicked Hubert Humphrey because Humphrey wasnt doing what he wanted fast enouigh.Johnson was a politician. He was Senate leader during the time you mention and kept his position through the goodwill of important senators like Russell of GA, Byrd of VA, and other diehard racists.You are full of crap as his political career is well documented as he was instrumental in stopping civil rights legislation for over a decade before realizing he could use it to boost the party. In 1948, he called Truman's civil rights proposal a farce and a sham and stated that he will vote against the so called poll tax repeal bill and that he would vote against the anti-lynching bill.
He again stood against the 1957 civil rights bill under Eisenhower.
His great society program has been both the greatest contributor of the breakdown in black families, the largest contributor to increased national expenditures, created inner-city slums, and has been the fuel that has kept the Democratic Party alive.
Your argument is not based in reality but in liberal talking points. You are just to damned stupid to see reality.
LBJ cancelled Kennedy's Executive Orders to scale down our involvement in Vietnam and instead sent over 50,000 men to their death in a war where he also made sure that the enemy could not be attacked in Hanoi to win the war.
You leftist scream about Bush lied and people died while celebrating a man who killed 50,000 men and wounded over 300,000. Over 9 million men had to pay a direct price for this war mongering piece of shit, racist, manipulative scumbag.
But his actions as president and even before that belie the idea he was a racist. He insisted on dinners he attended being desegregated and employed a black secretary for years. And took her with him to events.
You have a very simplistic, superficial understanding of Johnson, who was enormously complex. But then again this is the internet age and you probably do most of your "research" on Wiki.
He was a manipulative piece of shit Democrat who cared about nothing but his own political power.
But his record on civil rights was very strong.
Yes, he strongly opposed it until he was President and saw that he would lose political power if he didn't support it like the Republicans were doing at the time. In Congress, he fought against it and as Vice-President he tried to advise Kennedy against it.
For his first two years, JFK wanted no part of Civil Rights...he just wanted it to go away
It was not until his third year in office that events in the south pushed JFK to where he had to do something
LBJ could have easily killed the Civil Rights bill once he became President. He could have declared his public support and then worked behind the scenes to make sure it never passed. But instead, LBJ used every power he had to make sure it passed...it was his finest hour
Absolutely.
Without LBJ the 1964 Civil Rights Act would not have passed.