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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 drafted a bill intended to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments, aiming to eliminate various previously legal strategies to prevent blacks and other minorities from voting.
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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South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.
Dr Johnson's unique " refutation " of Bishop Berkeley's immaterialism, his claim that matter did not actually exist but only seemed to exist, has been described as Ignoratio elenchi: during a conversation with Boswell, Johnson powerfully kicked a nearby stone and proclaimed of Berkeley's theory, " I refute it thus!
Douglas Haldeman has described William Masters ' and Virginia Johnson's work on sexual orientation change as a form of conversion therapy.
Johnson's recorded version has a ragtime flavor.
No nomination for associate justice has ever been filibustered, but President Lyndon Johnson's nomination of sitting Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice was successfully filibustered in 1968.
" Regarding the new President, Andrew Johnson, Grant commented to Julia that he dreaded the change in administrations ; he judged Johnson's attitude toward white southerners as one that would " make them unwilling citizens ", and initially thought that with Johnson " Reconstruction has been set back no telling how far.
Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, " We have lost the South for a generation ", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.
" One of Johnson's aides, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., has countered that " from 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22. 2 percent to 12. 6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century.
No Democratic candidate has won office in Chaves County since Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory of 1964.
Parks has taken small TV and film roles including appearances in Popeye, The Two Jakes, and as Leo Johnson's defense attorney Jack Racine in episode # 2005 of Twin Peaks.
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess ' Stardust was released by Vertigo as a heavily illustrated novel, rather than a regular comic, and Vertigo has also experimented with the dimensions of their OGNs, releasing several that are of a non-comic-book-standard size, including Dave Gibbons ' The Originals and Mat Johnson's Incognegro ( which also featured somewhat experimental artwork, namely art-by Warren Pleece-that was fully black and white, with no " halftones or grays ").
* Johnson's Corner Farm has hayrides during three seasons to pick and take home crops.
Although the majority of Johnson's setup is vintage, he has recently started using more modern equipment, including a stereo chorus made by Analog Man and a Fractal Audio Systems Axe-Fx.
This independent, do-it-yourself ethos has been an important influence on Johnson's career.
The band's lead singer, Courtney Love has the line: ' I went to school with Calvin ,' a reference to Johnson's influence within the burgeoning Olympia indie music scene.
One story, mentioned in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), has a Sybarite sleeping on a bed of rose petals, but unable to get to sleep because one of the petals was folded over.
Don Johnson also has a role in the Norwegian comedy Lange Flate Ballær 2 (" Long Flat Balls II "), directed by Johnson's friend Harald Zwart.
Johnson's artistry, his significance in the subsequent development of jazz piano, and his large contribution to American musical theatre, are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by Reed College musicologist David Schiff, as " The Invisible Pianist ".
Some felt the study was poorly designed and executed by Tudor, and as a result the data offered no proof of Johnson's subsequent theory that " stuttering begins, not in the child's mouth but in the parent's ear " -- i. e., that it is the well-meaning parent's effort to help the child avoid what the parent has labelled " stuttering " ( but is in fact within the range of normal speech ) that contributes to what ultimately becomes the problem diagnosed as stuttering.
Richard Johnson's 1621 narrative ends here but he promised his readers a sequel that has never been found, if published at all.
Phillip Johnson has developed what is called the ' Intelligent Design ' movement ..." In Christianity Today, she reveals Johnson's religious beliefs and his criticism of evolution and affirms Johnson as " The unofficial spokesman for ID " The scientific community views intelligent design as unscientific, pseudoscience and junk science .< ref >< cite >" Biologists aren ’ t alarmed by intelligent design ’ s arrival in Dover and elsewhere because they have all sworn allegiance to atheistic materialism ; they ’ re alarmed because intelligent design is junk science.
Sessions has recently returned to formal acting, with parts ranging from James Boswell ( to Robbie Coltrane's Samuel Johnson ) in the UK TV series Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles ( 1993 ) to Doctor Prunesquallor in the BBC adaptation of Gormenghast ( 2000 ).
He was known in his time for political writing, and ( flatteringly ) as " the Whig Johnson ", though his reputation has lasted less well that Samuel Johnson's, and the resemblances were at a superficial level, Parr being no prose stylist, even if he was an influential literary figure.

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