Question

What skills did President Johnson use to gain passage of the Civil Rights Bill? 2. Can other presidents replicate the Johnson style or is it unique to one individual?

Answer 1

Answer: president Johnson used a persuasive tactics to gain the civil Rights bill. This tactics showcase smiles and detailed facts about his points. He approached the juris in a way that it will be very impossible to resist his wishes, because he came in a friendly manner, by smiling and detailing the need for the bill to be approved. This his tactics is popularly know as the Johnson's style.

The Johnson's style is a unique style of approach, as it is an individual life style. It can't be learned, because you can't fake what you don't have. Some people are naturally friendly and can smile always, while some people are always serious and self minded. The Johnson's style cannot be replicated by other president, which does not have that lifestyle.

Answer 2

1) President Johnson initially tried to lobby but later appointed Dirksen’s men to a regulatory commission with intention that Dirksen would give his three votes at the Congress

2) Yes, any president can do the same by replicating the style of president Johnson just by utilizing the media as he did, and reaching out to the people through the advanced technology of today.

Explanation: It the motion started in 1957, with Johnson as Senate majority leader, engineering passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act, a feat generally regarded as impossible until he did it.

To see Lyndon Johnson get that bill through, almost vote by vote, is to see not only legislative power but legislative genius.

One technique to Johnson's success was that he managed to link two completely unrelated issues: civil rights and dam construction in Hells Canyon in the Sawtooth Mountains of America's far northwest. Western senators were eager for the dam, which would produce enormous amounts of electricity. For years the advocates of public power and private power interests had fought to determine whether the dams would be built by government or private companies.

Also, the pressure of the civil right activities and the death of John Kennedy helped the bill.