Beto O'Rourke: “His city council colleagues will pass the first ordinance to…”

“Three years later, in that same town, Raymond Taez will be elected the first Mexican American mayor of a major American city. And then five years after that, His city council colleagues will pass the first ordinance to desegregate places of public accommodation anywhere in the former Confederacy. A fact not lost on then President Kennedy nor his successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the first President from the state of Texas who uses all of the political capital at …” (09:35–09:46)

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