Reply #8: That article doesn't tell the whole story, according to Kitty Kelley.

[Longhorn]

Yes, he eventually voted for it in 1968 but he opposed it every time before that. I'm listening to the book on cd so I can't look up the passages but he was very much opposed to the civil rights act and campaigned on that opposition. I can't recall right now what caused him to vote for it in 1968 but like other Bushes, he later acted like the whole thing was his idea!

By the way, she this up by quoting his own diary and other correspondence.