That was President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the greatest civil rights champion of any modern-day president. The point of these examples is not to offer a historical loophole for any leader caught being blatantly racist. LBJ, the racist civil rights heroPresident Lyndon Johnson is a prime example of someone who was able to rise above his racism. President Lyndon Johnson was both a champion of civil rights and someone who displayed shocking racism. Johnson's passion for civil rights was so heartfelt that the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells a remarkable story in a recent book.

Source: CNN February 03, 2019 21:22 UTC