Subj : LBJ Quotes
To   : IB JOE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Oct 06 2024 11:04:00

IJ> LBJ said he was going to get the N-Word people to vote Democrat for the
IJ> next 200 years!!!  Remember!!???

That quote was "outed" by a former Air Force One steward named Ronald
MacMillan who provided several tidbits of juicy gossip for "Inside the
White House," a "hidden lives" book published in 1995 by Ronald Kessler.
Some of MacMillan's tidbits provided for the book have not been
corroborated by others.

"[T]he historical evidence suggests that far from being concerned about
securing future generations of black votes, one of Johnson's main worries --
which, to his credit, didn't prevent him from pushing for passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 -- was losing the votes of white Southerners. His former
press secretary, Bill Moyers, recounted this scene in his 2004 book Moyers on
America:

"When he signed the act he was euphoric, but late that very night I found him
in a melancholy mood as he lay in bed reading the bulldog edition of the
Washington Post with headlines celebrating the day. I asked him what was
troubling him. 'I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party
for a long time to come,' he said."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/

This article does go on to point out that historians (and not gossips) have
credited LBJ with some other cynical and racist-sounding quotes, but not
this particular one.


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