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...Republican today, and would have made the switch about the same time that his good friend, former Gov. Connally did.

LBJ signed the Civil Rights bill into law purely because of politics. It's extremely doubtful that anyone else alive back then knew more about politics. He knew that he had to have the Black vote in 1968, especially since a disproportionate number of Blacks were being killed and wounded in Vietnam. Additionally, the bulk of the Civil Rights package had been driven by the Kennedy brothers, not LBJ. As it turned out, he chose not to run in 1968 because of the growing opposition to the war.

If anyone continues to believe that LBJ was a good person, perhaps it might help them to know that he considered J. Edgar Hoover to be a good friend. They were known to swap information on various individuals whenever they got together for a drink.