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President Lyndon Johnson wanted his $100 billion tax cut, actually $108 billion dollar proposed tax cut,

something that he and John F Kennedy had actually proposed before the letter president's death.

But to get through and finish Kennedy's tax cut, it wasn't one pitch that President Johnson needed to make for every senator.

He optimized his approach, depending on who he was talking to.

For liberal Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy, and I should stress this as before, McCarthy would challenge him in a primary many years before,

he focused on getting the bill through quickly to keep it from breaking up the civil rights bill that he knew McCarthy supported.

If the tax bill got delayed because of a southern strategy to fight civil rights, Lyndon Johnson said,

that just ruins us.

I've got to pass taxes and civil rights, he stressed, or I quit.

But he shifts gears for his old friend mentor and sometimes legislative opponent, Georgia Democrat Richard Russell.

This is not being very wise in your southern strategy opposing this tax dick.

Since he was an opponent of civil rights, Richard Russell, he needed to pass this tax bill.

The southerners on the finance committee should get the bill out to the full senate for a final vote,

or you'll have every businessman in the country messing up your civil rights fight.

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