Eh? I think it's Master of the Senate that goes over very well that Southerners were less opposed to voting rights than the end of segregation.
Caro in MoTS points out that the non-insane Southrons could never deny the patriotic, American value of allowing everyone to vote... in the abstract.
But in the non-abstract, they and their cloture-sceptic pals forced Leader Johnson to water down the 1957 Civil Rights Act so that the voting rights enforcement portion was thrown to all-white juries (depending on the will of the judge), for effectively civil, non-criminal trial (it's actually contempt of court that was the mechanism for jail sentences).
I don't think any Southron bad guys were ever put away under this law.
The 1957 Civil Rights act is not a good pointer for the VRA being an easy thing to do. VRA is an awesome example of big government liberal interventionism, not a damp squib.
But at least the earlier stuff was a pointer for Johnson not being terrified into inaction like FDR was over this stuff.
But this is the man who took LBJ's advice to introduce the tax cut before civil rights in order to have a better chance at both, and ignored it completely.
The amazing thing is that crap decision by JFK was assisted by advice from Larry O'Brien, his legislative liasion, and yet O'Brien goes on to be assimilated into LBJ's orbit (to a greater extent than any old Kennedy hand), and Johnson seems to have come to the conclusion that O'Brien wasn't half bad as a number counter.
The breakdown in strategy over congressional relations in Camelot, it's as bad as anything Carter is accused of.
No, because the increased economic activity from the cut increased tax revenue.
Hmmm, we coming up against some pushback against Jack's Keynesian fundamentals here, I wonder.