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 | | By December 1861, the House of Representatives was pointedly refusing to reaffirm the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution of the previous July, which had averred that the Northern war aim was not to end slavery, but only to restore the Union. |
 | | We may have to console ourselves with the knowledge that even if Roosevelt and Johnson, and the men who drafted the 14th Amendment, and Lincoln, the man who drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, did the right things for the wrong reasons, this is infinitely preferable to the reverse. |
 | | Lyndon Johnson and the legislators who passed this Act desired racial justice, of course, but they also wanted to win the Cold War, and their mixed motives produced a historic advance in the cause of human freedom. |
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