Putting Country First Quotes
Speech from the House Chamber of the Texas Capitol after the Supreme Court had ruled 5 to 4 that his opponent, who had won the popular vote, could not do hand counts on contested ballots. He was trying to unify a very divided country. The statement did much to that end.
The statement is made by a government minister who has broken the law, and harmed innocent people in order achieve when he believed was a greater good.
The job of the Community Relations Service was to provide mediation and other services to promote voluntary desegregation in communities. Most Southern politicians were urging non-compliance with the Civil Rights Act, and to be a federal official who tried to persuade Southerners to desegregate was not good for a political career. Collins, to his great credit, accepted the President’s offer. Johnson’s “sales pitch” was the altruistic and patriotic side of the President which often gets overshadowed by his political machinations.
