President Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 Legacy to Obama

President Barack Obama will attend a major summit on Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights legacy at the LBJ Library in Austin on April 10, 2014 the White House confirmed. Obama will deliver a keynote address on the final day of the three-day summit, following presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton on the two previous days. George W. Bush is tentatively scheduled to speak on April 10 as well.

Summit organizers said. “On Thursday, April 10th, President Obama and First Lady will travel to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, to deliver remarks at a Civil Rights Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act,” a White House statement said. “Further details about the President and First Lady’s travel to Texas will be made available in the coming days.”

As President Ronald Reagan said, "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!" 

How true about LBJ's 1965 "Great Society" Agenda!

This legacy goes back fifty years to the passage of "The Great Society" Bill enacted in 1965 by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, a 'good ole boy Southern Democrat' known for his racially bigotted comments and ways. 

The oft quoted "I'll have niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years" -- in the biography, "LBJ", Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler. The quote is attributed to Robert M. MacMillan, a steward aboard Air Force One Jet.

"[LBJ] called me 'boy,' 'nigger,' or 'chief,' never by my name... Whenever I was late, no matter what the reason, Johnson called me 'a lazy good for nothing nigger'...I was afraid of him because of the pain and humiliation he could inflict at a moment's notice." -- Robert Parker, LBJ's chauffeur, in his autobiography, "Capital Hill in Black and White".

The Democrat party historically was always actively promoting laws that supported racial segregation and had several Ku Klux Klansmen such as: Democrat Senators Robert Byrd, Senator Al Gore Sr., Democrat President Harry S. Truman, Democrat Governors Strohm Thurmond filibustered against civil rights in 1957 and George Wallace blocked black students entry into segregated schools in 1957. As a side note, as a Democrat Senator, JFK himself voted against the 1957 civil rights act too.

President Lyndon B. Johnson was the former longtime U.S. Senate Democrat Majority Whip who was boorish, bullying, boastful and politically savy. Lyndon literally 'white-washed' the Democrat Party past history as he used black voters for pawn pieces on his Washington, D.C. chess board to win their support for his 1964 Presidential race and bragged that his Democrat voter legacy legislation, the 1965 'Great Society' Bill, would last, "for the next 200 years." ~ his own personal bigotry certainly remained. The 1964 'Civil Rights Act' provided the political cache' to win the 1964 Presidential election with a Democrat Majority Congress that enabled LBJ to submit eighty-seven bills to Congress, and Johnson signed eighty-four, or 96% into law for the 1965 'Great Society' Bill's agenda on his 'War on Poverty.'

What has happened to the core of black America since the 1965 'Great Society', the largest reform agenda passed since Roosevelt's New Deal, with a set of domestic programs: Operation Headstart, aid to urban mass transit, a demonstration cities program, a housing act that included rental subsidies, an act for higher education and jobs Corps?

All their families have been destroyed:

In 1950, 17 percent of African-American children lived in a home with their mother but not their father. By 2010 that had increased to 50 percent. 

In 1965, only eight percent of childbirths in the Black community occurred out-of-wedlock. In 2010 that figure was 41 percent; and today, the out-of-wedlock childbirth in the Black community sits at an astonishing 72 percent. 

The number of African-American women married and living with their spouse was recorded as 53 percent in 1950. By 2010, it had dropped to 25 percent.

President Johnson's legacy to Obama is a multi-billion dollar debacle of the largest proportion of waste to the wealth and people of the United States. Obama has learned nothing from his legacy and continues on with the Liberal, Progressive Democrat out-of-control programs bent on destroying the economy and country. 

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