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Lyndon Baines Johnson: A Texan in Washington
Lyndon Johnson and the Concept of Equal Basic Liberty
or
The Political Stirrings of An Uncommon Texan
Lyndon Johnson is a personal]. ty writ lrg=' on t!e ace o-
rmerica. We know e -verythi ng about him and woe know "little about
him. There are those who loved him and there ar those who did
not. Few were -- or are - neutral. He was an a: ctive force in
ameri can political life over a span ot four detcdes. Hi
activities arousec passions and caused people. to ma ke hard
choices. Neutrality is a non--feeling associated with a wimp -
o- ai.l the names Lyndon Johnson has been called over the years
the word wimp was-not among them. He had ideas but yas not an
ideal ogue. - His ideas sprang from his root=_n the Ie as H.L
Country and -From the soil of his Soul.
Lyndon Johnson was a Patriot who believed in this country'
capacity to secure the bl~esings of liberty to each and _very
A meri can., He bei eved that it -waspossible to mbr n
.Justice from the theoretical and the abs'tractt: t _u-tanti
obl :i. gations o-f government a merican.we are prdr _f our
entitlement to equal basic liberty whi'.ch ha=" it .baais in r
ftundament al law, the Consti tuti on of the Unitedtt But ;if-it
were to just to remain an idea we woL.d be no more t hann
uncoerced , isolated people watching our {ifel==s arc-hive. That
:its unacceptabe. Equal, basic 1li berty must liven rnd vibrate. t
includes liberty of conscience, freedom of thght eq ty'
opportuniLtyv, equal educati on, free choice nf.ccuatin,
guarantees of a social minimum, and equal participation in the
political process.
Lyndon Johnson, as a servant of the public, worked to give life
and meaning to these basic principles for every A4merican. His
actions were not always applauded by his =fl1.ow Tex:.ns
non-Tex ans. Not withstanding that fact. o-f poli t i cal li f-F he
acted Tex an? Yes. An uncommon Tex an? Somet i mes , some i mes.
One of those times occurred i n .l~/. Dw i ght Eenhcwer was
Pre i dent and Lyndon Johnson was D-mocrtic leader in thme t
States Senate. Pending was the -First Civil Right1 Li 11._.
Reconstruction. Senator Johnson indit}?d his :eitn to vct.fo
the bil1 and spoi.::e in favor cf it: ': Hei :id,".amaware cfthe
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Jordan, Barbara C. Lyndon Johnson and the Concept of Equal Basic Liberty or The Political Stirrings of An Uncommon Texan, text, April 10, 1986; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611236/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Southern University.