History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1964 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Johnson Takes Office
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The idea
Lyndon Johnson, raised in poverty in the Texas Hill Country, idolised Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, the Yawp records.
In practice
A politician who, in the Yawp's words, scratched and clawed his way up the political ladder.
Where people slip
The Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty-four was, Digital History says, skilfully pushed through Congress by Johnson.
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