The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis. Taylor was a writer and historian who moved to the Big Bend after retiring from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2002.
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The Most Important Office in a Democracy
After the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson found himself the president of a nation with a civil rights problem. While his advisors told him he should not be announcing civil rights as a top priority, President Johnson felt, deeply, that civil rights should be at the top of the agenda. After a grueling 7 months of filibustering and sticking to what he believed to be the fairest approach to civil rights, president Johnson signed the Civil Rights Bill into office, extending the full rights of citizenship to millions of Americans who had previously been denied this right. On this Episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about the responsibility of the President to ensure ...