text:  And I think some presumptions now in favor of a president who can violate the law without worrying about being held criminally accountable. Barbara McQuaid, University of Michigan law professor, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Thank you. Thank you. Sixty years ago today, with a stroke of a pen, President Lyndon B. Johnson made history. This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts.