LA Times, Wash. Post truncated Clinton's civil rights comments

SUMMARY: In an article, the Los Angeles Times joined other media outlets in truncating a comment by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton about civil rights, quoting Clinton's statement that "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964" and that "it took a president to get it done" but omitting Clinton's reference to President Kennedy. Clinton had also said that passing a civil rights bill was "something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried."

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