They had a petition and they picketed the shoot and everything Ultimately didn't come to much, the movie was still a huge hit and now it's like one paragraph on Huber's Wikipedia page
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I can't begin to imagine the political illiteracy that would lead someone to just *assume* you couldn't make a list like this for a Democratic politician of any significance born in 1908.
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The biggest irony here is that half of the things that get attributed to the New Deal were actually part of Johnson’s Great Society initiatives. The big one in current discourse being Medicare.
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Eisenhower had insisted on such a bill being passed as a way to quell tensions after Brown v. BoE and after he'd ordered troops to protect the Little Rock Nine LBJ undermined Ike and the GOP by using that procedural genius he was known for, adding a "poison pill clause"
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On "states' rights" grounds, stipulating that anyone prosecuted under the 1957 CRA would be tried in state rather than federal court, which meant in the South they'd face an all-white jury determined to acquit Not as dramatic as Strom Thurmond's filibuster but more effective
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