I noticed that today is the anniversary of President (Lyndon) Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. I was 17 at the time, between my junior and senior years of high school in Davenport, Iowa, and it was 1964, so I was much more conscious of the state of my juvenile libido and the war in VietNam than I was of civil rights.
I didn’t think much of Lyndon Johnson. I was about half-sure that he’d had something to do with killing Kennedy to get into the White House, and I was probably already leaning toward Goldwater. Once I was in the military I was much more concerned with him getting me killed.
To the extent that I thought about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, I pretty much passed it off as leftover legislation from the Kennedy administration which, in a way, was true. It was originally submitted in June, 1963, by the Kennedy White House, but the legwork and the arm-twisting and the bullet-biting that would ultimately cost the Democratic Party the Old South was done by the Johnson White House. At the time of Kennedy’s assassination the House Judiciary Committee had only just reported the Bill to the House which wouldn’t consider the Bill until January, and the Senate wouldn’t take it up unless/until it passed the House.
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It is somewhat ironic (is that the word?) that the Party of Lincoln and Northern Democrats would ultimately pass this historic act which would soon lead to the defection of Southern Democrats to the Republican Party and eventually to the takeover of the Party of Lincoln by the coalition of (you say neo-conservative, I say neo-fascist) right-wing nut-jobs we’ve been dealing with ever since Nixon. (Hubert Humphrey in 1968? Really? Even I had to vote for Nixon!)
So, there we have that; I’ve been under-rating LBJ all this time. I’m sure he never noticed (and wouldn’t have cared if he had), and I’m still pretty pissed about him sending all of those guys across my operating room table for a civil war in a country no one had ever heard of (not to mention all the guys he sent to Arlington), but “Good work on the Civil Rights Act, Lyndon.”
If you haven’t seen it, you should watch the documentary “Fog of War” by Errol Morris. It’s an interview with Robert McNamara and how he admits he was “wrong” about the Vietnam war strategy and how, at one point, he tried to convince Johnson that the war was a mistake.
I grew up during the civil right era also. We lived in San Francisco and I can recall being very concerned about the other faction of civil rights proponents, the Black Panthers and others who were pursuing a more violent strategy. Interesting times.