Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cloture & Final Passage: Phone Conversation, May 13, 1964

"We don’t want this to be a Democratic bill, we want it to be an American bill."

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s conversation with Senator Everett Dirksen on May 13, 1964. (WH66405.06)

credit: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Recordings