| | The [[War on Poverty]] was a set of programs instituted by [[President Lyndon Johnson]] and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]]. President Johnson was reported by accurate sources to have said,<ref>Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-''Air Force One'' steward Robert MacMillan as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC ''Inside the White House''] (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.</ref> | | The [[War on Poverty]] was a set of programs instituted by [[President Lyndon Johnson]] and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]]. President Johnson was reported by accurate sources to have said,<ref>Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-''Air Force One'' steward Robert MacMillan as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC ''Inside the White House''] (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.</ref> |
| | [[Historian]] Leah Wright Rigueur<ref>Leah Wright Rigueur Wiki-Bio: Married Life, Husband, Children, Net Worth And Family!, https://thecelebscloset.com/leah-wright-rigueur-wiki-bio-married-net-worth/, Michael Rogers, September 30, 2018</ref> first noted that black [[Republicans]] criticized the "plantation politics" of the Democratic Party in 1964.<ref name=WaPo20190108 /> The metaphor of the Democrat Party as a slave plantation was mentioned by [[Richard Nixon]] in a 1968 interview with ''Jet'' magazine.<ref name=Beast20190215>The Forgotten History of Black Republicans, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-forgotten-history-of-black-republicans, Leah Wright Rigueur | ''The Daily Beast'', February 12, 2015</ref> | | [[Historian]] Leah Wright Rigueur<ref>Leah Wright Rigueur Wiki-Bio: Married Life, Husband, Children, Net Worth And Family!, https://thecelebscloset.com/leah-wright-rigueur-wiki-bio-married-net-worth/, Michael Rogers, September 30, 2018</ref> first noted that black [[Republicans]] criticized the "plantation politics" of the Democratic Party in 1964.<ref name=WaPo20190108 /> The metaphor of the Democrat Party as a slave plantation was mentioned by [[Richard Nixon]] in a 1968 interview with ''Jet'' magazine.<ref name=Beast20190215>The Forgotten History of Black Republicans, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-forgotten-history-of-black-republicans, Leah Wright Rigueur | ''The Daily Beast'', February 12, 2015</ref> |