 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - 1965 - 1262 страница
...fulfill the destiny that history has set for us. Our most immediate tasks are here on this Hill. First, no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred... | |
 | Jim F. Heath - 1975 - 356 страница
...point of his speech came when he turned to civil rights. "No memorial oration or eulogy," he declared, "could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought." After the applause died down, he continued: "We have talked long enough in this country about equal... | |
 | David J. Garrow - 1978 - 368 страница
...the elevation to the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, who told the Congress in his initial address, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." Johnson then proceeded to throw his own substantial legislative weight behind that bill. It... | |
 | Clarence J. Karier - 1986 - 492 страница
...assassination on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, President Johnson appeared before Congress and said, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."14 By the spring of 1964, the act was signed into law and the fed140. Newman, Protest, Politics,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1986 - 1348 страница
...tensions and threaten violence.' After the assassination of President Kennedy, President Johnson said, "No eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." It seems to me in that context that we must consider what the Senate was trying to do and the... | |
 | Edward G. Carmines, James A. Stimson - 1989 - 242 страница
...rights bill would be a top legislative priority, representing a living memorial to the slain president: "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of this bill for which we fought so long." Having publicly committed himself to the pending civil rights... | |
 | Hubert Horatio Humphrey - 1976 - 436 страница
...memory of the late President: "No memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." It was an appeal heard across the country, building on the glow of goodwill that the August... | |
 | James David Barber - 2011 - 355 страница
...emerging majority. "Our most immediate tasks," they heard him say, "are here on this Hill." First, no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred... | |
 | Charles Lloyd Garrettson - 1993 - 392 страница
...the presidency, asserted that "no memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long" the nation took him at his word. As Humphrey said, "This time the country was watching and ready."31... | |
 | Nadine Cohodas - 1994 - 614 страница
...Johnson returned to Capitol Hill to tell Congress that civil rights would be at the top of his agenda. "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently...passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long," Johnson said, skillfully tying his legislative goals to the memory of the slain president. As... | |
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First, no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. 
