America is known as the country of the free. But, it was not always this way and freedom was not born until the Civil Rights Act was signed. The person who fulfilled this idea of the Civil Rights Bill was President John F. Kennedy, who was later assassinated and could not complete his task. However, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson stepped in and later became president. He completed JFK’s task, but the question is, why? “I feel that the experience of his teaching those Mexican kids was a very important aspect of his whole life. It motivated him on the education bills, on his nondiscrimination, on civil rights, and a great many basic ideas that were developed during his presidency…”, was said from Wilbur Cohen, a friend of Johnson. There