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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

To be fair, he announced a big push on Civil Rights just a few months before he was assassinated. It's possible he wouldn't have had the juice to get it passed, and that his assassination is the only reason Johnson got it passed, but Kennedy was certainly taking action.