Lyndon Johnson vs. Herbert Hoover, 1964

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I of course vote for the less socialist candidate. Option 1. Let's assume he lives a month longer.

Maps?

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No. So he probably would have strongly supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Hoover raised the top income tax rate from 25% to 63%. With his approval, the estate tax was doubled and corporate taxes were raised by almost 15%.

Notable Hoover policies and proposals include fifty dollar monthly pensions for Americans over 65. A price-fixing Federal Farm Board. An anti-trust division in the Justice Department. Federal loans for urban slum clearances. A federal Department of Education. And the Anti-Injunction Act, which outlawed yellow dog contracts in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment not to join a labor union.

Some of those became law. Others didn't. They were all bad.