johnson, the legislative master. he understood the senate. he understood how to get something through congress the way john f. kennedy didn t. then i hear the fact he was a southerner. that he had been friend with the segregationists and he had credibility with segregationists through his years in texas. sort of like only nixon can go to china thing. i wonder how much truth to lbj taking over in 63, there wouldn t be a civil rights act in 64? the assassination, that shocked the country so deeply, and gave, as robert carrow says in his latest lbj book, it gave impetus to the johnson administration. then in the next 12 weeks or 16 weeks, an incredible array of legislation passed on that wave of national shock, of which this was a major component. but there were also bob can