Today the man who claims to be President gave a speech honoring Lyndon Baines Johnson for signing the Civil Rights act. It is the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights legislation. Here is a quote from LBJ from a speech in 1948.
“The Civil Rights program, about which you have heard so much, is a farce and a sham… an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in Congress. It is the province of the State to run its own elections.”
In 1957 LBJ added this gem.
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”
These quotes kind of put all the LBJ worship going on in perspective.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/10/obama_lbj_knew_what_the_hell_the_presidency_was_for.html
