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Civil Rights Act Was Beginning of the End for GOP

By Mark Siegel
Special to Roll Call
May 14, 2009, Midnight

Lyndon Johnson is famously quoted as observing, “There goes the South,” as he signed the Civil Rights Act. Interestingly, Vice President Joseph Biden is said to have had a very different take on what happened on July 2, 1964.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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