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Newspaper Article
The '60s: Once Upon an Optimistic Time
2008
Overview
The \"liberal hour\" lasted only a few years, from 1963 to 1966, from the final days of John F. Kennedy's presidency through the first three years of Lyndon B. Johnson's, but in that brief period of time came two civil rights acts that remade politics not only in the South but also across the entire country; the unassailable edifices of Medicare and Medicaid; pioneering environmental laws; education and immigration bills; stronger protections for consumers; a host of antipoverty programs, including food stamps and Head Start; new federal departments of transportation and housing and urban development; and other reform measures, literally hundreds. A deep-dyed conservative, Dirksen nonetheless rose above party and partisanship to assure the passage of civil rights legislation and other bills favored by Democrats.
Publisher
New York Times Company
