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Religions > Atheism |
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19 Jan 2005 03:32:17 PM |
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OT: Lyndon Johnson |
A Tale of Two Texans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19407-2005Jan18.html
By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, January 19, 2005; Page A19
Forty years ago tomorrow, Lyndon Johnson took the presidential oath on
the steps of the Capitol, and American -- and inaugural -- politics
have not been the same since.
Before Johnson became president, the United States had not had a
president from the South since Zachary Taylor died in office in the
summer of 1850. In the 40 years since Johnson's landslide victory,
southerners have been president for 24 years -- at least if we grant
Poppy Bush's claim that he was really a Texan. By ending southern
exceptionalism, by steering to passage the great laws that ended legal
segregation and enabled southern blacks to vote, Johnson made it
possible for southerners to run for president freed from the burden of
defending a profoundly racist system. He made it possible for them to
win.
Harold Meyerson
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