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Spider Jerusalem

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3. I think the same thing, personally.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 12:56 AM

Nov 2013

If Kennedy had lived? The Civil Rights Act probably wouldn't have passed. (LBJ knew how to get the Senate to do things, and he was able to browbeat fence-sitters with "we need to pass this in honour of our martyred president, it's his legacy".) And we still would've been involved in Vietnam.

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