What skills did President Johnson use to gain passage of the Civil Rights Bill? 2. Can other presidents replicate the Johnson style or is it unique to one individual?

1) President Johnson initially tried to lobby but later appointed Dirksen’s men to a regulatory commission with intention that Dirksen would give his three votes at the Congress

2) Yes, any president can do the same by replicating the style of president Johnson just by utilizing the media as he did, and reaching out to the people through the advanced technology of today.

Explanation: It the motion started in 1957, with Johnson as Senate majority leader, engineering passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act, a feat generally regarded as impossible until he did it.

To see Lyndon Johnson get that bill through, almost vote by vote, is to see not only legislative power but legislative genius.

One technique to Johnson's success was that he managed to link two completely unrelated issues: civil rights and dam construction in Hells Canyon in the Sawtooth Mountains of America's far northwest. Western senators were eager for the dam, which would produce enormous amounts of electricity. For years the advocates of public power and private power interests had fought to determine whether the dams would be built by government or private companies.

Also, the pressure of the civil right activities and the death of John Kennedy helped the bill.