re: #39 ggt

iirc, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and/or 1960 were partially the work of Nixon. He was very close to Eisenhower. Personally and professionally.

I read about it in Master of the Senate, the 3rd in the series about LBJ. The author explained how LBJ took it out from under Nixon. They were bitter enemies in the Senate.

There is a whole history I found eye-opening.

In 1960, Nixon actually won about a third of the votes cast by black Americans. But after he inaugurated the “Southern Strategy” in 1968, that number fell to 10%.