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Johnson's administration has received very poor historical rankings amongst scholars, typically amongst the bottom three.
Johnson's Attorney General issued legal opinions to the administration designed to thwart the execution of the Reconstruction Acts.
Johnson's defense relied on the provision of the Tenure of Office Act that made it applicable only to appointees of the current administration.
In this alternate history the corrupt US President Ferris F. Fremont ( FFF for 666, ‘ F ’ being the 6th letter in the alphabet, see Number of the Beast ) becomes Chief Executive in the late Nineteen-Sixties following Lyndon Johnson's administration.
His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.
During Johnson's administration, NASA conducted the Gemini manned space program and the Apollo program, including Apollo 7 ; and the first human spaceflight to the Moon, Apollo 8, in December 1968.
Johnson's administration worked to bring electric lights and water works to fruition.
Johnson's administration also pushed for women's suffrage and the ability of candidates to register in more than one political party, a reform that he believed would cripple the influence of what he viewed as a monolithic political establishment.
Soon afterward, Senator Robert F. Kennedy announced he would join the contest for the Democratic nomination, further emphasizing the plummeting support for Johnson's administration in the wake of Tet.
In July 1963 Bowles was again made Ambassador to India, a position he would hold through the remainder of the Kennedy administration, and for the duration of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.
He did not comment on the incident while campaigning, though it fit well with the charges he had been making of a lack of morality in Johnson's administration, though he was referring to Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes.
The enormous deficits were in large measure holdovers from Lyndon Johnson's commitment to both " guns and butter " ( the Vietnam War and the Great Society ) and the growing competition from other G7 nations after their postwar reconstruction, but it was the Reagan administration that chose to let the deficits develop.
Other controversial uses of the pardon power include Andrew Johnson's sweeping pardons of thousands of former Confederate officials and military personnel after the American Civil War, Jimmy Carter's grant of amnesty to Vietnam-era draft dodgers, George H. W. Bush's pardons of 75 people, including six Reagan administration officials accused and / or convicted in connection with the Iran – Contra affair, and Bill Clinton's commutation of sentences for 16 members of FALN in 1999 and of 140 people on his last day in office, including billionaire fugitive Marc Rich.
Two justices died in office during Johnson's administration, James Moore Wayne and John Catron.
During Kennedy's presidency Glazer worked in the Housing and Home Finance Agency, predecessor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and in Lyndon Johnson's administration he was a consultant with the Model Cities Program.
During this period Harrington wrote The Other America: Poverty in the United States, a book that had an impact on the Kennedy administration, and on Lyndon B. Johnson's subsequent War on Poverty.
A former BBC Chief Political Correspondent, in May 2008 he was appointed as Communications Director for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall.
In May 2008 he was appointed Communications Director for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall.
Wilkins worked as a welfare lawyer in Ohio before becoming an Assistant Attorney General in President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration at age 33, one of the highest-ranking blacks ever to serve in the executive branch up to that time.
After the civil unrest during Johnson's administration, Watergate during Nixon's administration, and the public exposure of COINTELPRO by a dissident organization in 1971, widespread criticism of the Red Squads for illegal and undemocratic tactics emerged.
County Executive Jack B. Johnson narrowly won the Democratic nomination against Rushern L. Baker, III, a vocal critic of Johnson's administration.
Johnson's responsibilities in that position included day-to-day management of the office, including administration of its $ 5 million budget.
During Johnson's administration, the LBJ Ranch house was known as the Texas White House.

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These petitions were referred to Johnson's committee, and in response, Johnson, a practicing Baptist, drafted a report now commonly referred to as " The Sunday Mail Report ".
After the American Civil War, he vigorously opposed the Congressional Plan for Reconstruction and drafted President Johnson's message vetoing the Reconstruction Act passed on March 2, 1867 ; his veto was overridden.
Sorensen drafted Johnson's first address to Congress as well as the 1964 State of the Union.

Johnson's and bill
The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.
) Johnson's bill provided that if a congressman was absent, his salary would be reduced proportionally.
Many legislators who supported the bill lost their congressional seats as a result, including Johnson's colleague Solomon P. Sharp from Kentucky.
With these changes in place, Albert was able to push through the Medicare bill, known as the Social Security Act of 1965, and he shepherded other pieces of Johnson's Great Society program through Congress.
Darrell Rowland of The Columbus Dispatch described Johnson's idea: " The obscure proposal – two dozen lines in a 58, 936-line bill – would prevent subpoenas of legislative staff members and their communications with legislators.
" Nevertheless, the Senate passed Johnson's proposal, part of the state budget, over attempts by the Democratic minority to remove the language from the bill.
( Johnson's opinion does not appear to reflect the group as a whole, which endorsed the bill on 21 July, according to its Tailevu Provincial representative, Adi Finau Tabakaucoro ).
The band was formed by Jaymz Bee ( current host of " Jazz In The City " on CJRT-FM ), following the breakup of The Look People, and were quickly offered a spot on Molly Johnson's Kumbaya Festival bill.

Johnson's and intended
In 1942 during World War II, a team headed by Revolite's Johnny Denoye and Johnson & Johnson's Bill Gross developed a new adhesive tape for the US military, intended to seal ammunition cases against moisture.
Johnson's force was originally intended to join General William Hull at Detroit, but Hull surrendered Detroit on August 16 and his army was captured.
It was reported in the local newspapers that Johnson's friends intended to nominate him for governor in the 1820 election.
The album was divided into three sections with different musical styles, intended to showcase Johnson's versatility.
The song " Mr. Johnson's Head " was re-recorded in 1997 and was intended to be featured on the group's fourth studio album The Great Milenko.
His philological studies, to which the last fourteen years of his life were devoted, resulted in the compilation of A Glossary of Provincial and Archaic Words, intended as a supplement to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, but never published except in part, which finally in 1831 passed into the hands of the English compilers of Webster's Dictionary, by whom it was utilized.

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Abruptly resigning, Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan expressed concern about the future of the United States Marine Corps and marine and naval aviation and Johnson's determination to eliminate those services through progressive program cuts.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1866 had been enacted into law over President Andrew Johnson's veto, some members of Congress voted for the Fourteenth Amendment in order to eliminate doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, or to ensure that no subsequent Congress could later repeal or alter the main provisions of that Act.
As a congressman in Lyndon B. Johnson's " Great Society " era, Green assumed leadership on issues such as meat inspection, rat control, and tax reform and led the charge in Congress to eliminate the oil depletion allowance.

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