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Article: LBJ's American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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LBJ's American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address. By Garth E. Pauley. Library of Presidential Rhetoric. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 180. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-581-3, cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-574-5.)
In this slender volume Garth E. Pauley spotlights the speech that contemporary commentators and historians alike have deemed President Lyndon B. Johnson's "greatest oratorical triumph": his March 15, 1965, special message to Congress announcing White House support for legislation to combat the disenfranchisement of black voters (p. 14). As a historian of presidential rhetoric, Pauley considers the content of the ...