The John Batchelor Show

VIDEO: JFK & the Reagan Revolution

September 07, 2016

Tuesday  6 September 2016   / Hour 1, Block D: Larry Kudlow, in re:  A Philip Randolph in the early 1960s: poor economic growth was blocking any economic progress for African- Americans after Brown V Board. The 1967 Civil Rights Act was limited. 
Needed to break up an unholy alliance of unions; voted against tax cuts, wanted the status quo of segregation. LBJ got George Meany (AFofL-CIO) on board.  See the book. Growth is essential to the American psyche.