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Episode 33: The Johnson Treatment (Part 2) The Great Society, the murder of 3 Civil Rights Workers, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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This episode opens as Lyndon Johnson declares War on Poverty in America. LBJ had a vision of the America he wanted to create and unlike many of our Presidents this man was the quintessential legislator. Johnson's ability to get legislation passed was an area of his job in which there has been no equal, whether you like what he passed or not. Johnson's Great Society changed America in fundamental ways and redefined what many Americans looked for in their Federal Government.
One of the centerpieces of Johnson's Great Society was in the area of Civil Rights. He was a Southerner…
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