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What was president johnson able to do that president kennedy had failed to do answers?

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get Congress to approve a dramatic tax cut for the middle class

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Johnson had far more Congressional experience in the Senate than Kennedy and he was from the South. as such he successfully negotiated Civil Rights legislation through Congress, something which Kennedy had had little success in
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