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[Laurie Verge]

I agree that Kennedy does not have the stature of Lincoln in respect to being an "emancipator." In fact, I don't think that Lyndon Johnson gets the respect he deserves in regards to pushing through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Some have said that Kennedy could not have gotten that passed, and I agree. Personally, I don't think Johnson was a very likeable personality; but I do think that he was a master politician with a great deal of experience, cunning, and the knowledge of where Washington skeletons were hidden so that he could blackmail others into political positions. That's what it took to get that Act passed.