LBJ invoked Kennedy’s memory to pass a bill Kennedy had not prioritized

Evidence

“No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy’s memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long,” declared Lyndon Baines Johnson to Congress. Civil rights had hardly topped Kennedy’s agenda, but activists and diplomats felt relieved. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 969

Categorization

• CANDY: The irony that LBJ’s eulogy credited Kennedy with a fight Kennedy ‘had hardly topped his agenda’ is a sharp, tweetable contradiction.
• XREF: connects to: Liberal rhetoric has inverted Kennedy’s dreaming from a virtue into a shame — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1547