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Jimmy Carter: “We would never have had the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill, had Roosevelt, Johnson, Kennedy not been elected.”

On the recordOctober 30, 1980
We would never have had the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill, had Roosevelt, Johnson, Kennedy not been elected.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Houston, Texas Remarks at a Rally With Area Residents.

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