Will This Support Go to Segregated Institutions?

The idea that the g i bill would expand, or that college would become universally free was just seen as antagonistic towards the south. You had democrats who had been arguing for more financial aid of some sort to help people go to college. And you had republicans say, don't listen to those socialists over there. Big government is simply creeping socialism. Which brings us back to the river in texas in 19 57, where lindon johnson, the senate majority leader at the time and the second most powerful man in washington, is looking up at the sky and thinking about sputnick.