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Toward the end of his remarks, he looked up from his notes and said with confidence and defiance, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.”

“It would take a lot of arm-twisting, negotiating, and compromising, but Lyndon Johnson knew how to play the game better than anyone else, and on August 6, 1965, he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with numerous civil rights leaders by his side.”

“I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy,” he began. “At times history and fate meet at a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.”

“None of us realized it at the time, but we were being swept into Camelot.”