kennedy the previous summer, all president kennedy talked about was how the civil rights bill needed to do what j. edgar hoover said and not be tainted with being subversive. kennedy was afraid of this, afraid of losing the south. no democratic president had ever been elected without the support of the solid south that was democrat in those days and all segregationists. so president kennedy was not making up these political handicaps, they were real. mr. califano, i want to go to this go ahead. and then i ve got a question for you. i think it s interesting to note you think about selma and king s march in selma, which was critical to the voting rights act. that came out of conversations between president johnson and martin luther king when he said to king, you know, you find the worst place in the south, you find where people can t vote without reciting the constitution and you get down there.
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assassinated. you know you have our support and backing. we know what a difficult period this is. it s just an impossible period. we ve got a budget coming up. we ve got nothing to do with, it s practically already made and we ve got a civil rights bill that hasn t even passed the house and it s november and hubert humphrey told me yesterday everybody wanted to go home. we ve got a tax bill that they haven t touched and we ve just got to not let up on any of them and keep going. i guess they ll say i m repudiated but i m going to ask the congress wednesday to stay there to pass them all. they won t do it but we ll keep them there next year until they do and won t give up an inch. but his ability to hammer out deals in congress was key to getting a civil rights bill passed. for 57 days the civil rights act faced the longest filibuster in senate history. to get the 67 votes that were required then to break it, johnson needed help from the senate s 33 republicans. and to get their h
get all the leaders down there so that a guy that s on a tractor in the midwest will say it s just not fair, everybody ought to be able to vote. you do that job down there, get radio and television down there, i ll push this bill through up here. so it was that kind of partnership. go ahead, i m sorry. let me ask you, because you ve been quite vocal about this and there s this sort of is there a real tension that you think or do you think that this white house of president obama, he doesn t like the lbj comparesons, i don t think any president does, and any president will say that was a unique period and lbj had a unique set of circumstances, similar to what president obama argues and it s this whole idea that president johnson was so capable of getting things through congress, making stuff happen, and obviously this has been a chief criticism of this president. what do you say to those comparisons? the white house obviously thinks they re unfair. what do you say to them? well, l
president of the united states is shrewd. what you re saying about president obama, if he could be frank underwood, the last time the congress was run like that is when lindyndon johnson was majority leader and sam linwood was the speaker. and they would come together and decide how the congress would be run, and it got done. don t you think gingrich did? no. you don t remember sam rayburn? i watched the entire season, and it makes me feel awful that you sit and watch 13 episodes in a row in your underwear. how do you purge yourself after binging on television? their are photos. candy crowley is on and starts asking really tough questions. i thought, how refregzs. she s on. i won t say what she s talking about because then that s a spoiler alert. ahead, how to defeat hillary clinton if she runs again in 2016. mitt romney and karl rove have