By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?

Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter.

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