...respect due him as a human being. As President Johnson said in his address to Congress on November 27 : We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We har« talked for 100 years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter — and to write it in...

...respect due him as a human being. As President Johnson said in his address to Congress on November 27 : We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for 100 years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter — and to write it in the books of law....

...point of his speech came when he turned to civil rights. "No memorial oration or eulogy," he declared, "could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought." After the applause died down, he continued: "We have talked long enough in this country about equal...

...enactment of a civil rights bill. In his first state of the Union message, President Johnson declared, "We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked 100 years or more.... it is time now to write the next chapter — and to write it in the books of...

...the elevation to the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, who told the Congress in his initial address, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." Johnson then proceeded to throw his own substantial legislative weight behind that bill. It was following...

...assassination on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, President Johnson appeared before Congress and said, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."14 By the spring of 1964, the act was signed into law and the fed140. Newman, Protest, Politics,...

...tensions and threaten violence.' After the assassination of President Kennedy, President Johnson said, "No eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's...the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." It seems to me in that context that we must consider what the Senate was trying to do and the House,...

...rights bill would be a top legislative priority, representing a living memorial to the slain president: "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of this bill for which we fought so long." Having publicly committed himself to the pending civil rights...

...memory of the late President: "No memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." It was an appeal heard across the country, building on the glow of goodwill that the August March had...

...the presidency, asserted that "no memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long" the nation took him at his word. As Humphrey said, "This time the country was watching and ready."31...