LBJ said he was going to get the N-Word people to vote Democrat for the next 200 years!!! Remember!!???
That quote was "outed" by a former Air Force One steward named Ronald
MacMillan who provided several tidbits of juicy gossip for "Inside the
White House," a "hidden lives" book published in 1995 by Ronald Kessler.
Some of MacMillan's tidbits provided for the book have not been
corroborated by others.
"[T]he historical evidence suggests that far from being concerned about securing future generations of black votes, one of Johnson's main worries -- which, to his credit, didn't prevent him from pushing for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- was losing the votes of white Southerners. His former press secretary, Bill Moyers, recounted this scene in his 2004 book Moyers on America:
"When he signed the act he was euphoric, but late that very night I found him in a melancholy mood as he lay in bed reading the bulldog edition of the Washington Post with headlines celebrating the day. I asked him what was troubling him. 'I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party
for a long time to come,' he said."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/
This article does go on to point out that historians (and not gossips) have credited LBJ with some other cynical and racist-sounding quotes, but not
this particular one.
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