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Tue Jun-06-06 01:32 PM
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Vietnam is a huge blotch but no president was more committed to Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Open Housing Act of 1968 and the nomination of the first African-American to serve on the US Supreme Court (Thurgood Marshall) are monuments to his committment. Beyond that his War on Poverty (his other war) actually cut the poverty rate from better than 20% when he took office to under 13% when he left office. Then there is Medicare.
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