Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Unless we have the Republicans joining us and helping us … we’ll have a mutiny in this goddamned country. So we’ve got to make this an American bill and not just a Democratic bill … It doesn’t do any good to have a law like the Volstead Act if you can’t enforce it
The Volstead Act was a law passed by Congress to enforce Prohibition in 1919. Very few people obeyed the law.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Discussion about the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1964, Telephone conversation with Hubert Humphrey, April 1964
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After defeating the Federalists, Jefferson tried to unite a politically divided and fractious country:
The President wanted Anderson to relay his message to other Republicans which he did. At that time the Southern racists were almost all members of the Southern bloc of the Democratic Party. Most Republicans were then advocates of non discrimination. By 2010 virtually all the racists, nativists, neo Nazis, anti Catholics, and anti Semites had gravitated to the Republican party if they were still active in politics. Reasonable Republicans were embarrassed as reasonable Democrats had been before the shift which resulted from passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Democratic Speaker of the Oklahoma House Jim Barker was so heavy-handed that his own party members combined to unseat him:
“Republicans” then referred to strong opponents of not only monarchy, but opposed a strong Presidency and federal government. The Federalists who supported John Adams for reelection to a 2nd term, were trounced so badly that it was the end of the Federalist Party. Their attacks on Jefferson had been particularly vicious with the hyperpartisanship as bad as in the early years of the 21st century. Jefferson tried to unify the nation with this quotation. It helped but there was still much bitterness.
One of the most effective Senators, she became more and more frustrated as her party was dragged into obstructionism and hyperpartisanship by ultra conservative but inexperienced Tea Party Republicans who saw every compromise as treason to the party and a craven sell out of principle. They were not able to pass a single law however, and Snowe chose not to run despite an easy reelection and tried to reform the Congress from the outside.
The Tea Party Republicans did not agree about compromise of principles, nor did some Democratic liberals who were being asked to cave in on extending emergency unemployment insurance for long-term unemployed.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
