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Garbo 2004

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Mon Sep-07-09 06:13 PM
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135. Dem Congresses had failed to pass civil rights and medicare til LBJ finally got them through

Edited on Mon Sep-07-09 06:16 PM by Garbo 2004

Congress.

LBJ had to wrangle Dems for votes, including Dems who controlled committees and could block legislation and had done so, as well as Repubs to get support for bills such as civil rights and medicare.

It's only glib retrospect without regards to the times and the politics and players that can falsely assume that 68 Dems, a Dem controlled Congress, made it easy for such major progessive legislation to pass in the 60's. Such radical change was not easy then any more than it is now.

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