March 13th: LBJ Meets With George Wallace

Reflections of History

Audacy Podcasts | Shining City Audio

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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On March 13, 1965, LBJ meets with Alabama’s George Wallace. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shining City Audio, a John Meacham and C-13 original studio.
0:30.0	March 13th 1965, LBJ meets with Alabama's George Wallace.
0:50.0	I'm John Meacham and this is Reflections of History.
1:00.0	I'm John Meacham and I'm John Meacham and C-13 original studio.
1:31.0	In the days after Bloody Sunday in Selma, President Johnson knew he needed to act.
1:42.0	Images from the attack at the Pettis Bridge have been broadcast.
1:45.0	ABC broke into the network premiere of Judgment at Nurember to show the footage.
1:50.0	But Johnson was careful to lash out a Governor George C. Wallace in the power structure
1:55.0	in Alabama too hard might create more problems than it would solve.
2:00.0	If I just send in federal troops with their big black boots, it will look like reconstruction all over again.
2:05.0	Johnson said privately,
2:07.0	I will lose every moderate, not just in Alabama, but all over the South.
2:11.0	Most Southern people don't like this violence.
2:14.0	They know deep in their hearts that things are going to change.
2:17.0	They may not like it, but they will accommodate.
2:20.0	But not if it looks like the Civil War all over again.
2:23.0	That will force them right into the arms of extremists and make a martyr of Wallace.
2:27.0	And that's not going to help the Negroes to have to fight a war.
2:31.0	Unless we're going to occupy the South all over again.
2:34.0	I may have to send in troops, but not until I have to.
2:38.0	Not until everyone can see I had no other choice.
2:42.0	Working through Tennessee Governor Beaufort Ellington, Johnson got Wallace to agree to come to the White House for a meeting.
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