He contrasted President Lyndon B. Johnson's decisive stance in Vietnam with the international failure to take preemptive action against Hitler.

The committee, disapproving of Johnson's " summary manner " of terminating the carrier and failure to consult congressional committees before acting, stated that " national defense is not strictly an executive department undertaking ; it involves not only the Congress but the American people as a whole speaking through their Congress.

After attempts to make the company more profitable and successful than it was when he and his company bought it in 1979, Hostage sold the Howard Johnson's company after years of failure.

The committee, disapproving of Johnson's " summary manner " of terminating the carrier and his failure to consult congressional committees before acting, stated that " national defense is not strictly an executive department undertaking ; it involves not only the Congress but the American people as a whole speaking through their Congress.

At the same time in the United States, a group of disillusioned liberals, including Irving Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz, look to the political thinking of Leo Strauss after the perceived failure of President Johnson's " Great Society ".

" Murphy had previously criticized Johnson's book Darwin on Trial for being " dogmatic and unconvincing ", primarily because " he does not adequately understand scientific reasoning.

After this accomplishment, Johnson's practice grew as projects came in from the public realm, including coordinating the master plan of Lincoln Center and designing that complex's New York State Theater.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

Akerman believed that Congressional Reconstruction had been the better plan for the Southern states, opposed to President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.

Stanton strongly disagreed with Johnson's plan to readmit the seceded states to the Union without guarantees of civil rights for freed slaves.

By the time the first monument, commemorating the Heroes of the Alamo, was installed in 1891, the major components of Johnson's plan were in place.

Following Lincoln's assassination, Brown was vehemently opposed to new President Andrew Johnson's moderate plan of Reconstruction.

Johnson's plan was for Lange to evaluate talent and establish an International Baseball League that could compete against the American League pennant winning team in an effort to generate greater interest in the game.

When his plans at the Constitutional Convention of 1866 were not enacted, he rejected Johnson's plan for Reconstruction and aligned himself with the Radical Republicans.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

These proclamations embodied Johnson's conciliatory policies towards the South, as well as his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights ; these positions and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Radical Republicans who demanded harsher measures.

Johnson's third term in Congress found him stiffening in his opposition to non essential government spending, from expenses of the new Smithsonian Institute to the purchase of portraits for the White House.

The Whigs had gained control of the Tennessee legislature, and redrew Johnson's First District so as to ensure that House seat for their party, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr .; the Nashville Union termed this " Henry-mandering ".

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

Johnson's position that the best interests of the Union were served by slavery in some areas made him a practical compromise candidate for president.

Lincoln commented, in response to Hugh McCullough's criticism of Johnson's behavior, that " I have known Andy Johnson for many years ; he made a bad slip the other day, but you need not be scared ; Andy ain't a drunkard.

Johnson's personal attitude of white supremacy was seen in his hostility toward expanded rights for freedmen.

In a second effort at compromise, Trumbull presented for Johnson's signature the first Civil Rights Bill, which sought to grant citizenship to the freedmen.

By the summer of 1866 Johnson's method of restoring states to the Union by executive fiat, without safeguards for the Union Party or the freedmen, was in deep trouble.

Johnson's mood did not change ; he continued to criticize the Congress for refusing to allow the Southern states to take their seats.

These proclamations embodied Johnson's conciliatory policies towards the South, as well as his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights ; these positions and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Radical Republicans.

The House adopted eleven articles of impeachment, for the most part bearing on Johnson's violation of the Tenure of Office Act in his dismissal of Stanton and appointment of Thomas.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

He was obtained from the Yankees in exchange for Luis Vizcaino, Ross Ohlendorf, Alberto Gonzalez and Steven Jackson, with the Yankees paying $ 2 million of Johnson's $ 26 million salary.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

His love for numerous styles of music can be traced from his early recording of stride-pianist James P. Johnson's " Johnson Rag ," all the way to the rock stylings of Eric Johnson, an invited guest on Atkins's recording sessions who, when Chet attempted to copy his influential rocker " Cliffs of Dover ," led to Atkins's creation of a unique arrangement of " Londonderry Air ( Danny Boy ).

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

* 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

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.

Dallas defensive end Tony Tolbert sacked O ' Donnell on third down for a 9-yard loss, however, forcing Pittsburgh to settle for kicker Norm Johnson's 46-yard field goal with 11: 20 left in the game, cutting the deficit to 20-10.

Thompson showed no remorse, stating that it was Johnson's fault for not being able to swim.

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).

January 8: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty

This action is due to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.

* November 28 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy would be known primarily for the nonenforcement and defiance of Reconstruction laws passed by the U. S. Congress and would be in constant conflict constitutionally with the Radicals in Congress over the status of freedmen and whites in the defeated South.

From 1966 to 1968, Brzezinski served as a member of the Policy Planning Council of the U. S. Department of State ( President Johnson's October 7, 1966, " Bridge Building " speech was a product of Brzezinski's influence ).

The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying U. S. conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.

Johnson's speech repeated the theme that " dramatized Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh as the aggressor and which put the U. S. into a more acceptable defensive posture.

" Johnson's statements were short to " minimize the U. S. role in the conflict ; a clear inconsistency existed between Johnson's actions and his public discourse.

Eventually Clifford moved very close, with Johnson's tacit support, to the views McNamara held on Vietnam just before he left office — no further increases in U. S. troop levels, support for the bombing halt, and gradual disengagement from the conflict.

Although his program of Vietnamization could be termed a success, if one considers the progress of troop withdrawals, U. S. involvement in the conflict became perhaps even more disruptive at home during Nixon's presidency than during Johnson's.

Having protested U. S. President Lyndon Johnson's presence at the opening of that year's World's Fair, Goodman left New York to train and develop civil rights strategies at Western College for Women ( now part of Miami University ) in Oxford, Ohio.

U. S. Senator John Little McClellan later arranged for Smith, who boasted the most intimate knowledge of the depot, to travel to Washington D. C. and negotiate " over White House tea " with Lyndon B. Johnson to transfer ownership of the sprawling NAD complex to Johnson's Brown and Root.

In 1948, an incident involving Lyndon B. Johnson's bid for the U. S. Senate took place at Alice's Precinct 13 where 202 ballots were cast in alphabetical order and all just at the close of polling in favor of Johnson.

John Calhoun Johnson, Sierra explorer and founder of " Johnson's Cutoff " ( now U. S. Route 50 ), was the first white man to see Meeks Bay and from a peak above the lake he named Fallen Leaf Lake after his Indian guide.

During Senator Johnson's unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Democratic U. S. presidential nomination, Moyers served as a top aide, and in the general campaign he acted as liaison between Democratic vice-presidential candidate Johnson and the Democratic presidential nominee, U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy.

Some sources also claim Berliner as a co-founder ; others say Berliner was never connected with the Victor company, though that may have been part of a ruse by Johnson to defeat the Zonophone lawsuits that had put Berliner Gramophone out of business ( in the U. S., but not in Canada, the UK, or Germany ) and threatened Johnson's phonograph business.

In time, he became an orchestra-leading pianist in his own right, as well as the author of a series of mystery novels, a presence in high society ( into which his mother had been born ), and a frequent entertainer ( as well as musical director for U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration ) at the White House and on television.

Although Welles admitted in his diary that he was dismayed by Johnson's behavior on the trip, particularly the president's penchant for invective and engaging directly with hecklers, Welles remained loyal to Johnson to the end, even congratulating him in 1875 when Johnson, now an ex-president, was launching a comeback political bid with his election to the U. S. Senate from Tennessee.