TDs should look to US President Lyndon Johnson for inspiration

It looks like a minority government soon or another General Election.

If TDs need inspiration, they can look at how US President Lyndon Johnson used his powers of persuasion on the then Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, when he visited the White House in 1965.

A Civil Rights Act was passed and the president was ready with the Voting Rights Bill. He spoke to the governor on how American black citizens found it impossible to vote in Alabama. These are some of the highlights: