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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (585595)	6/26/2004 5:11:57 PM
From: Mana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Opposition to the Civil Rights Act was led by Barry Goldwater. Who cares!!! What is your point?? He was one of few Republicans compared to the many socialists that voted against it. ...an interesting historical fact is that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Republicans, and muscled into passage over fierce Democratic opposition--including a filibuster by Robert Byrd, who is still in the Senate. Only a tiny handful of Republican Senators voted against the bill. "I am half-Jewish, and I know something about discrimination," said one of the few Republicans to vote against the bill. It wasn't just talk. He had one of the best records on Civil Rights in the Senate. He was a member of the Arizona chapter of the NAACP. As a city council member in Phoenix, he had been instrumental in ending school segregation there. Yet in the end, he voted against the bill. In his final arguments against passage, he said: "I am unalterably opposed to discrimination of any sort and I believe that, though the problem is fundamentally one of the heart, some law can help--but not law that embodies features like these, provisions which fly in the face of the Constitution and which require for their effective execution the creation of a police state...With the exception of Titles II and VII, I could wholeheartedly support this bill... "If my vote be misconstrued, let it be, and let me suffer the consequences. Just let me be judged in this by the real concern I have voiced here and not by words that others may speak, or by what others may say about what I think." ---Senator Barry Goldwater, future Republican nominee for President deanesmay.com