“Now bear in mind that Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey probably in American history, are the strongest pro-civil rights people in history as, as President/Vice President. I also had a strong record and have a strong record. We were trying to set up a system here that from there on out, would in effect be a civil rights law for our party, as it’s proven to be, and would cause in each of these states, an integrated party to be established-not just all white or all black, but a party of all Democrats. And that’s what we were up to.”
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