He had repeatedly declared that his administration’s civil rights proposals were “moderate,” that they aimed chiefly to protect the right to vote as expressed in the Fifteenth Amendment. During the spring he repeated his view that the civil rights bill threatened no one: “In it is nothing that is inimical to the interests of anyone. It is intended to preserve rights without arousing passions and without disturbing the rights of anyone else.”
turns out protecting certain citizens' (African Americans) right to vote is seen as an attack by other citizens because... heritage?
