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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (704856)3/19/2013 12:44:53 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (4) of 1573922
 
>Part of the political strategy to hold the votes of the South for the 1960 election....you remember that one, don't you?

The wingnuts here pull this one out from time to time, but from what I can tell it isn't true.

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I've dug and dug and dug but I cannot find original sources that say that Kennedy voted against the bill. I've gone through the Congressional record, I've gone through a history book on the topic, but nothing. Quotes from him at the time make it sound like he was pretty darned happy when it passed.

And their new hero Rand Paul STILL doesn't support the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

-Z
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