When LBJ, the Kennedys, Civil Rights Leaders, Congress and Republicans Joined Together and Acted Heroically

It is so easy to forget that there was a time when Lyndon Johnson, for all his flaws; the Kennedys, for all their flaws; Congress, for all its institutional inertia and perceived corruption, and Republican leaders, for all their flaws, put short-term self-interest aside and acted heroically in the nation’s interests, under pressure from heroic leaders o…