Record copy, Transcript of Recorded Remarks of Radio Broadcast on Civil Rights
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OCR Page 1 of 5RADIO BROADCAST ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
BY
SENATOR LYNDON B. JOHNSON, APRIL 11, 1960
Lyndon B. Johnson:
My fellow Texans.
I want to talk to you today about what has happened in Congress dur-
ing the last eight weeks.
What has happened is the Civil Rights Bill has been passed. It is
not primarily a Democratic victory.
It is not a Republican victory.
It is not a victory for this or that candidate for the Presidency.
It is a victory for the nation, for the United States of America.
It is a victory for moderation, for common sense.
It is a victory for fair play.
It does not treat the south as a conquered outlaw province, but it
does establish voting rights for all qualified citizens.
That is what the Civil Rights Bill does.
MATURITY AND UNITY
It is a triumph for maturity in our national politics.
It is a triumph for national unity in a time of great peril and a time
of great opportunity, in a world hurtling toward tomorrow and with little
time for yesterday.
It is a vindication of the old ideal that this is one nation and not two.
A nation which is richly diverse in its free debates and its contrasting
ideals.
A nation which can clash but also a nation powerfully together in the
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