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Segami

(14,923 posts) Sun Aug 19, 2012, 12:43 PM Aug 2012

LBJ - Speech on VOTING RIGHTS

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"..Johnson states that every man should have the right to vote and that the civil rights problems challenge the entire country, not one region or group. The President asks Congress to help him pass legislation that dictates clear, uniform guidelines for voting regardless of race or ethnicity and that allows all citizens to register to vote free from harassment...."

March 15th, 1965

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The party of the pachyderms Plucketeer Aug 2012 #1

Plucketeer

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1. The party of the pachyderms

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Sun Aug 19, 2012, 01:38 PM

Aug 2012

has a different notion. They're sisnister, scurrilous, self-absorbed scumbags. They're one variety of pachyderm I would gleefully watch go extinct!

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