That is so absolutely not true. There is no way in hell that legislation would have passed the senate under Kennedy. I suggest you read Caro's biographies of Johnson or really anything about the passage of the 64 bill, while he was definitely a bad man he was instrumental in passing that bill.
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Reply to comment by RoosterRevenge in President JFK proposed Civil Rights Act legislation in 1963 and his successor Lyndon Johnson was able to pass it in 1964 by eaglemaxie
That is so absolutely not true. There is no way in hell that legislation would have passed the senate under Kennedy. I suggest you read Caro's biographies of Johnson or really anything about the passage of the 64 bill, while he was definitely a bad man he was instrumental in passing that bill.