LBJ and the Wisdom of the Long-Term Political Game

Glenn Rocess
7 min readDec 21, 2018

It has been said for decades that when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he quipped “We have lost the South for a generation.” There is no solid proof that LBJ said any such thing, but in his book Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times (via Google Books preview), Bill Moyers stated:

When he signed the act he was euphoric, but late that very…

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Glenn Rocess

Retired Navy. Inveterate contrarian. If I haven’t done it, I’ve usually done something close.