Preview: President Johnson's March 15, 1965 Voting Rights Speech to Congress 

Kennedy was known for his speeches. Johnson was known for getting laws passed.

Exactly

True

LBJ WAS action. He knew Washington the way Kennedy could only dream of. Kennedy dragged his feet while LBJ took action.

LBJ was a creep. And not to mention he costed us 60,000 lives of young men for a war not worth fighting for in the long run and the gulf of tonken’s LIE...

Sad thing is he didn’t even start the war and was sunk into it, his advisors were telling him that the “domino affect” could take place and affect the world, which it didn’t.

And even with Vietnam, historians typically rank him in the top 15.

You’re wrong. LBJ was a racist. The only reason why LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was due to the fact that he did not want to be considered a racist for not signing the bill into law. His logic: “If blacks are going to vote, they might as well vote for Democrats.” This isn’t taught in schools.

@@stephenbryant5251 Facts not bad mind reading. He was instrumental in making the legislation and getting it passed. People are complicated, especially him, but he was the best civil rights president since Lincoln.

@Taco Bell Destroyed My Anus Nixon dragged the war for full ome term before ending it. Adding tens of thousands of more deaths. He extended the war to Cambodia. Because there's always that urge to stay a bit more to get the job done.

Yeah right, give me a break. He was one of the worst presidents in American history even if you excluded Vietnam

@@LMajorDegs only racists dislike the Voting Rights Act, and the Civil Rights Act, only the immortally young or arrogant myopic dislike Medicare and Medicaid. And only imbeciles who do not know what productivity is dislike his education spending.

@@jt7638 “I’ll have those ni**ers voting democrat for the next 50 years”- LBJ NICE TRY ASSHAT

@@LMajorDegs you are such trash believing such nonsense. I feel sorry for you.

@@jt7638 what’s sad is you don’t know simple history. It’s Truly sad what liberals are in 2021 compared to the 60s. NO RESEARCH IS DONE

donald trump

I don’t take responsibility at all. Donald J. Trump

Ryan trump is the best president

HyperVoxel he failed the right and the left he’s not a good president but whatever you say man

Ryan he’s done more than most people. He’s kept almost all his promises

I was just about to start the first one. Thanks for the encouragement lol.

@@chasekemp6642 It's tough but it's worth it. I recommend a book - audiobook combination.

ge mke Good call on the audiobook. I have an Audible account, so I’ll combine it with the book!

Me too! Listening to Book 1 now

Hey, same here! That intro to Means of Ascent is incredibly powerful.

Johnson got left holding the bag for Vietnam. Too often presidents are left holding a grenade that their predecessor pulled the pin on.

Bullshit, Johnson killed Kennedy and accelerated vietnam

His Domestic Policy was pretty good His foreign policy was a disaster tho

MajorMlgNoob Agreed but you can't deny that if he hadn't failed in Vietnam he would be considered one of the best presidents.

It should be said that in the early and kid 60s it was popular opinion 6o be in favor of Vietnam. Not until 1968 did that change

@@MajorMlgNoob , he's main mistake, the Vietnam War, his intentions were somewhat okay, but the execution was extremely bad.

@@High_rise12 Even WITH Vietnam he is still one of the best American presidents. His work for civil rights and social welfare went beyond any president in history, including Roosevelt

Best on it, it was the Democrats who made the Confederacy & the kkk

I mean. You can see it. All of the southern democrats hated this

@@Charles50Kal the southern democrats were a different breed than the liberals in the party. It's similar to how today we have progressives and the corporate counterparts.

The last confederate veteran died in the 1950’s

@@Charles50Kal Which party now flies the Confederate flag?

I know right

What do you think about our universe is there a different between yours?

LBJ was a racist

You mean Democrats who fought to keep it from passing 4:25

LBJ on a recorded phone call (look it up): "I'll have these n*gg**s voting Democrat for 200 years"

He made it worst for us

@@babyigotchomoney by signing the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law?

@@MajorMlgNoob them white liberals don’t give a fuck about us my people the AA COMMUNITY. You know it and I know it. After that bil was passed which he didn’t wanna sign in the first place was the start of the deconstruction of the black community. I’m black and can speak from experience so yeah that’s my opinion.

@@babyigotchomoney Why do you say he didn’t want to sign the Civil Rights Act? He literally fought his ass off to pass those bills. You are displaying profound ignorance.

@@tyronebiggums8660 because you can look in his eyes and tell he didn’t wanna sign it and he didn’t fight hard lmao he literally changed what JFK AND MLK PLANS for the AA community do some research because ignorance lies between the unknown 😉

God sent this racist straight to hell.

LBJ was terrible just like every democrat president since JFK

@@LMajorDegs Except Joe Biden

@@parallelburrito Joe Biden is NOT GOOD. Wtf 😂😂😂 he’s doing an absolutely terrible job, see this is a reason I left the party: DELUSION

@@LMajorDegs LOL. Enjoy the next 8 years!

@@jt7638 Biden’s gonna barley make it through 4 💀💀💀💀💀 DeSantis is gonna landslide in ‘24

So moved?? Right, were you moved how he called Blacks the N word?

@@jgiza8888 agree ... adding to that - - - REPUBLICAN Eisenhower proposed, fought for and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957-the first civil rights legislation in 82 years. The president presented the comprehensive bill in his 1957 State of the Union address. Contrary to the popular myth that Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson’s backroom dealing saved the Civil Rights Act from defeat, the bill was not Johnson’s triumph; it was Eisenhower’s. Johnson led Southern senators in a fight against a provision that empowered the attorney general to sue in federal court to protect a broad range of civil rights, including school desegregation. DEMOCRAT LBJ forced Eisenhower to capitulate or face the prospect of passing no bill at all. Johnson and the Southerners also added an amendment guaranteeing jury trials for civil rights violators, a requirement that, given all-white juries in the South, made conviction unlikely. Ike pushed back and won a compromise that softened the amendment. Thanks to Eisenhower’s leadership, 37 Senate Republicans supported the final version of the 1957 bill, but the “Master of the Senate,” Johnson, could muster only 27 Democratic votes. The legislation established the Civil Rights Commission and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which have publicized and prosecuted civil rights violations ever since. Eisenhower had broken the Southern stranglehold on civil rights legislation and, with passage of a voting rights act in 1960, set the stage for the groundbreaking legislation of 1964-65.

@@jgiza8888 Johnson and the Democrat plantation The New Deal Coalition began to fracture as union and religious leaders demanded support for civil rights, upsetting the party's traditional base of Democrat segregationists who themselves became dependent on government largess. In 1948 the party platform for the first time in its history showed some support for civil rights. The Republicans passed civil rights legislation with the 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and first passed anti-lynching legislation in 1922, which Democrats killed by filibusters. The party's reversal on civil rights culminated with Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson finally signing the bi-partisan Civil Rights Act of 1964, which he called "the N****r Bill." In lobbying fellow Democrats for the bill, Johnson said, "I'll have them n*gg*rs voting Democratic for two hundred years." Democrats tried to block passage by filibustering for 75 hours, including a 14-hour and 13-minute speech by the Exalted Cyclops, Sen. Robert Byrd, who later became Senate Democrat Leader in the Reagan era. The filibuster failed when the Senate invoked cloture for only the second time since 1927. The law was intended to block Republican gains in the South followed by buying off Blacks with Great Society welfare and affirmative action programs. According to LBJ biographer Robert Caro, Johnson told his chauffeur: "Let me tell you one thing, n*gg*r. As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your g*dd*mn name. So no matter what you are called, n*gg*r, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a g*dd*mn piece of furniture."

@@jb-vb8un That bill didn;t do jack shit and everybody knows it.

@@alexandernahan6768 ya got no facts regarding "everybody" - - - When the first Brown ruling was announced, REPUBLICAN Eisenhower immediately ordered the District of Columbia commissioners to develop a desegregation plan for the city’s schools; that was accomplished within a week. In a press conference, Eisenhower made a soldierly pledge to enforce the decision without commenting on the merits of the case-a move that many have misinterpreted as disagreement with the ruling. But in addition to Earl Warren, Ike appointed to the Supreme Court four stalwart supporters of desegregation: John Marshall Harlan II, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and Potter Stewart. REPUBLICAN Eisenhower also refused to appoint known segregationists to the lower federal courts. In an attempt to depoliticize the appointment process, the president and Attorney General Brownell moved it from the White House to the Justice Department and instituted American Bar Association assessment of potential nominees. When Brownell left office in 1957, Eisenhower continued to appoint pro-desegregation judges in the South. DEMOCRAT KKK SUPORTER President John F. Kennedy, in contrast, returned to appointing segregationists. As a result, the civil rights movement migrated from the courts to the streets. On September 24, 1957, Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order by one of his own appointees to desegregate Central High School. Governor Orval Faubus had deployed the Arkansas National Guard to bar nine black students from attending the school. After meeting with the president and agreeing to change the orders of the Guard to protect the black students, Faubus instead withdrew the troops, leaving the students at the mercy of the mob. That is when Eisenhower acted. In a televised address to the nation on the night of the 24th, Eisenhower vowed, “The president and the executive branch of government will support and ensure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts, even, when necessary, with all the means at the president’s command.” For decades, historians have assumed, thanks to the important legislation passed in 1964-65, that John F. Kennedy and Lyndon V Johnson were the era’s great civil rights leaders and that Eisenhower failed to “speak out” on the issue. But Ike’s record speaks for itself. JFK and LBJ did not commit to the cause until 1963, when horrific violence in the South compelled them to. It is time, finally, to bury the myth that Ike did nothing on civil rights. In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower was more progressive in advancing African-American civil rights than Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson.

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Bill Murray looks a lot like LBJ

Remember when forrest showed him his ass

Y'all forgot Randy Quaid.

He did. Woody Harrelson!

Bryan Cranston did him justice for sure. Check out All The Way on HBO.

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That's messed up...

This is not true. Lester Wolff, among others, is still alive and was a member of that session

@★ Froggie Animation ★ I actually looked into it and from what I could tell there are 3 elected officials who were there and are still alive (putting aside any other random people who were in the room like temps or guards). I think you're over estimating the life expectancy of Americans there. Even for officials with good salaries it isn't that common to make past 100. I mean no president has lived that long, and only like 5 or 6 even made it to there 90s

@@Burningpaladin1 And now Lester Wolff is dead. He lived to 102 which is very impressive

Especially McNamara!!

Same thing with FDR, DDE, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

@@jasonarokiaraj9817 Bill Clinton and Reagan should not be there. (Clinton was decent, but not best worthy and Reagan was a horrible president)

@@UnitedStates17 I liked bill clinton

@@lyndonbainesjohnson9178 He was a pretty good president but I would not put him on the list for the best president. He would definitely be close though.

and one of the MOST HATED Presidents, that's why he didn't run for re-election in 68!

He would have signed voting rights Act if he could have passed it. JFK simply didn't had the ability in him to convince enough people in Congress to pass something as big as Civil Rights Act of 64 & then this one. He tried passing his version of Civil Rights Act before, but failed to get it through. Johnson had the ability to get these bill passed, he was that good in handling the Congress.

@@epa2349 people respected Johnson because they knew he killed JFK and would kill them too if they didn't play ball

I honestly don't think that if JFK was still alive, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts would have passed. Johnson used the tragedy as a wedge to push these seemingly impossible bills through Congress. Had there been no tragedy, I find it almost impossible that JFK would have got this legislation into law.

People will try to tell you that the draft during the Vietnam war & the assignments into combat roles was disadvantages to blacks, but that’s not true. Only 25% of troops were drafted into the services, 75% were volunteers. Of troops who served in combat roles (infantry, artillery, armor & aviation) only 12.1% were black with the African American population being 13.4% of the overall population, so blacks were slightly under represented in combat in Vietnam. Of combat deaths (58,600), African American were only 12.5% with whites suffering 86.3% and Hispanics?at 5.1%. Folks that served in a particular unit that may have been assigned many African Americans but that was likely to be only in rear echelon roles, away from the fighting. Combat roles, wounds & deaths were remarkably aligned to the percentages of each race in the overall US population.

"we shall overcome" by LBJ

Yeah & the source for that statement: Trust me Bro.

you got that quote right!!

​@@epa2349Do your own research for once

Because millions of illegal immigrants dumped into the country is a threat to our democracy.

I think he is Joseph Kennedy one of the greats of old times

When the nation has showed favoritism to a certain race of people for nearly 200 yrs before this act & officially stepped on the neck of people of African race, then it needed to correct it's act. "Identity politics" is exactly what was being played in South at the time by denying black people same rights as white, keeping them away from voting. The one that was leading the nation needed strike down those unfair identity politics & down right white supremacist laws with this Voting rights Act.

Ok???

Lol he was a complete racist and started the war in vietnam you are a moron if you think this guy was a good president

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@theofficialytparchive LBJ was nowhere near a racist, you may be thinking of the trader southern governors in the 60s like wallace. johnson’s domestic policy was pretty damn good, the great society was a great achievement for the poor along with his medicare act, which gave 65+ healthcare, his foreign policy wasn’t the greatest, but LBJ was not the one to start the vietnam war. and let us not forget Nixon was the one to sabotage the peace talks between vietnam and the untied states in 1968. johnson is definitely rated in the top 20 greatest presidents of all time.

​@@ToyotaCorollaLE2020he impeached the country into the war

Lmao you’re proud to be a Californian hahahahaha

@@LMajorDegs it's from a video game

@@Spongebrain97 So putting America First is a backwards way of thinking? 😂 I bet you think the economy is doing great 😂

@@m.c.martin you can be patriotic without becoming a jingoisitc nationalist that is uncritical of the country and uses nostalgia goggles for something in the past that is never coming back lmao. Yeah America first is a backwards way of thinking because it doesn't produce anything of worth and attracts the dregs of society like the far right. It is just a virtue signal since it doesn't actually try to fix problems, only blame them on others like the poor or minorities

@@Spongebrain97 Then you don’t understand America First. It stops selling out our interests (or jobs, resources, etc…) and puts into the hands of Americans. America was a successful oil producer under Trump, unlike Biden. We had a stellar economy on top of that. And he brought jobs back from China. It’s ok for nations to put themselves first. It’s not backwards, it’s realistic. Your last statement says you’ve been brainwashed by Marxism. An actual failed ideology. America First doesn’t always equal MAGA by the way. Under Obama, America started falling behind. When Trump was in charge, America started getting ahead. And we all know the Pandemic happened. So they’re are different ways to approach it, but America First is a futuristic plan that seeks to benefit Americans First.

Buddy?

Who’s Ted Buddy? OH BUNDY, what a god awful analogy.

Yeah for continuing to draft thousands to die to fight a war he believed they'd have no chance of winning out of "American pride"

Guess you forgot a few things he said.

LBJ was super racist. RFK was truly a great man.

Primal Instinct he supported the civil rights act.

Primal Instinct bruh he literally passed the civil rights act and voting rights act

EXACTLY!

He had his faults, but he was a good man. He cared about the poor and the disenfranchised and wanted the whole country to finally get past the racist past in the south.

@@thomasfx3190 You’re so wrong!

@@2H2521 Good comeback. 🙄

@@thomasfx3190mans literally took all the silver out our coinage and put federal reserve notes into circulation with things like the coinage act 😂 wake up and stop being delusional. He literally called my people the n word “the n***** bill” like haha! Reminds me of Joe Biden and the Marxist blm protest