Robert Caro - The Passage of Power (3)

Perhaps the heart of the book of the book is the gripping account of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  That bill, introduced by the Kennedy Administration, and the tax cut bill, were languishing in the Congress when Johnson became President.  The chilling thing is that if Kennedy had not been killed, the seminal civil right bill would never have passed.  It passed primairly and necessarily because of the political skill of Lyndon Johnson.