ohiojack, I hope I was making a similar point with decent Mr. Goldwater, whose indignation contributed to Johnson's victory in 64, and Johnson did more than JFK in social reform, and before that Mr. Eisenhower, who railed against Mr. Goldwater for voting against the new Civil Rights Bill, was the first modern president who had caused any bill on civil rights to pass an American Congress. All of our great leaders, warts and all, have sailed close to the wind. I know that those of us who denigrate our leaders and institutions do not remain long as citizens of great nations but I'd crawl over a mile of broken glass to see their likes today.
Mr. DiLorenzo, an economics professor and not historian, is popular among neo-Confederate cognoscenti running down Mr. Lincoln as an evil man. "It was not to end slavery that Lincoln initiated an invasion of the South," he wrote in your source book. "A war was not necessary to free the slaves, but it was necessary to destroy the most significant check on the powers of the central government: the right of secession."
I'm not getting into that. Kind regards, King
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