The lesson of LBJ's legacy is that sometimes you want politicians do don't have very strong principles and just give in to pressure, as long as you make sure you're doing the pressuringhttps://twitter.com/ianbobmorris/status/1360112200388472832 …
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I gave a somewhat similar regaling of LBJ's record to my eldest and then ended it with "... and he's responsible for signing one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the history of the country" and I gotpic.twitter.com/ZNW7o9KsOz
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Like Ashoka or the slave-ship captain who wrote “Amazing Grace.” Can you honestly imagine anything worse than being one of the captors aboard a slaver? Your quarters separated by bare boards. Weakened foreign moans waking you in the night. I swear I’d a jumped overboard.
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Robert Caro posits (convincingly) that he always held antiracist, progressive views, but was just a master at holding his cards to his chest and waiting till he had to power to implement them. Plus, he viewed it as his destiny to be president.
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It's a big difference trying to get elected in Texas vs nationally
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I was LITERALLY trying to decide on the Ghosts of GOP Past, Present and Future a few minutes ago.
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I mean. Past is obviously Lincoln.
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