Context of Reagan Quote?

[Hazle_Weatherfield]

“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.” What was the context of this quote, attributed to Ronald Reagan? Is it from a speech? Was he answering a question?

[Squink]

Fall of 65 apparently:

Reagan also expressed wavering and contrary sentiments toward the issue of civil rights. In the fall of 1965, he had said, “I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and it must be enforced at gunpoint, if necessary.” Eight months later, he said, “I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”"

Silence of the laws

Through google scholar, as regular google proved worthless on this.

[samclem]

I found an article through proquest where he said “at the point of a bayonet.” I’ll have to find it later. Troll bashing right now.

[mhendo]

The footnotes in the document linked by Squink give this book (p. 198) as the source of the quote. Presumably, if you check out Duggar’s book, you might find more information about the context of the comment.