Radical Left Is A Myth And A Lie. Common Decency/Sense Now Framed Radical.

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53. No he wouldn't Johnson basically sacrificed re-election in order to pass

civil rights. Kennedy would not have done so...and Kennedy did not have the abilities that Johnson had as a Congressional insider.

"Admittedly, Congress remained dominated by a conservative coalition of Republicans and Dixiecrats. But Kennedy himself did not try to rally Americans to his cause in favor of pushing the Democratic agenda. He was necessarily keen on foreign affairs, but his foremost domestic ambition was to stimulate even greater economic growth by enacting tax cuts for capital and the rich, which is why conservatives might lay claim to him. Only when liberals and labor and civil-rights activists seriously pressed him for action, and the 1964 reelection campaign began to loom on the far horizon, did he begin to energetically take up his party’s liberal projects. I may be wrong, but I recall more enthusiasm at home for President Lyndon Johnson than there had been for President Kennedy, due no doubt to LBJ’s apparent and amazing determination to enact the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, build a Great Society, and pursue a War on Poverty that included

ehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/the-idolization-of-jfkxpanding Social Security to include Medicare and Medicaid."

I would add that Harvey J Kaye is from the University of Wisconsin and is of the left. I have read several of his books.