Here a excerpted passage from a book I recently read on Nixon:
In an underappreciated role, Nixon was Eisenhower’s point man on civil rights. Although Lyndon Johnson has been credited with passing the 1957 Civil Rights Act, it was the Eisenhower administration that pushed the bill. Earlier, Nixon had taken the lead by steering government contracts to black businesses.
-Historian Evan Thomas from the book
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