I grew up in the 60s, when a President pushed progressive legislation through Congress, when the Great Society was a promise made concrete by laws to give all Americans the vote, to protect their civil rights, and to provide them with health, education and a secure old age.
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LeBron is truly the

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I remember it was a hot August day on the south side of Chicago. We felt proud. Victorious.
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sad in some ways as it makes me feel like this was a 100 years ago, not fifty
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I was 7 years old. I remember my Dad explaining to me that 'this is history, honey' and how important it was. It still is.
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We need a Voting Right Amendment this time.
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Thank you for continually Tweeting the important history that many of us lived through, and that needs exposure today.
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All I’m saying is MJ has never signed a bill into law like Lebron
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And 40ish years later, SCOTUS guts it.
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If, as I fervently hope it will, the House flips, we need to start working on voting rights. Restoring the VRA and outlawing political disenfranchisement and gerrymandering!
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This is a great day in history. We have more work to do to stop this divide. Thank you for this Mr. Beschloss
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We need to re-up it & get rid of Citizens United, require automatic audits, hand hand count paper ballots publicly funded campaigns & require free TV ads for general elections.
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Thanks for your daily historical updates.
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But I thought LeBron was born in 1984.
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The government should make voting compulsory
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