"We are talking about a civil rights bill for Congress."

In good conscience, we cannot support the administration's civil rights bill.

But Johnson bet his all on getting a civil rights bill passed.

Johnson would have the votes to limit the civil rights bill.

Two hours later, the Senate passed the first civil rights bill since 1875.

A less charitable view is that the President let himself be used by people who didn't want a civil rights bill.

That's more of an issue in the district than this civil rights bill.

"The President would like to sign a civil rights bill," he said, "and we will be working toward that end."

There were some other losers in the agreement on the civil rights bill.