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Johnson continued to ingratiate himself with the North, the President-elect and his party, with his Unionist speeches in the Senate in early 1861: " I have an abiding confidence in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity of the people, and I feel in my own heart that, if this subject could be got before them, they would settle the question and the Union of these States would be preserved.
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As chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense, Johnson continued his relentless opposition to spending, especially when the capital city was the beneficiary ; he argued it was egregious to expect citizens in other states to fund the infrastructure of another locality, regardless of the fact it was the seat of government.
As the slavery debate escalated, Johnson continued to take an independent course.
The perpetuation of caste system amongst Africans continued through the 20th century, claims Johnson ; it helped maintain social control in the caribbean nations.
Reported in The Australian on 1 July 1966, Holt's speech concluded with a remark which has come to be seen as encapsulating his unquestioning support for Johnson, for America's Vietnam policy and for continued Australian military involvement in the Vietnam War:
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences continued to develop under the successive terms of the more humanistically oriented presidents Howard W. Johnson and Jerome Wiesner between 1966 and 1980.
The Senators continued to perform respectably in 1913 with Johnson posting a career-high 35 victories, as the team once again finished in second place.
After President Kennedy was assassinated Stevenson continued to serve in his position as Ambassador to the UN under the Johnson administration.
Johnson continued to work as a proponent of modern architecture, using the Museum of Modern Art as a bully pulpit.
Johnson continued to build structures on his estate as architectural essays.
Not everyone agreed with the Warren Commission, and numerous public and private investigations continued for decades after Johnson left office.
Johnson continued to claim the title because of the disqualification.
Johnson continued fighting, but age was catching up with him.
" Johnson continued to find reasons not to do the film, and finally Bogdanovich told him, " You, in this role, are going to get an Academy Award ," and finally Johnson accepted, " All right, I'll do the damn thing.
Even as he oversaw a continued buildup, Clifford preferred to emphasize the points Johnson had made in his March 31, 1968 address: that the South Vietnamese army could take over a greater share of the fighting, that the administration would place an absolute limit on the number of U. S. troops in Vietnam, and that it would take steps, including the bombing restrictions, to reduce the combat level.
The patent on paracetamol has long expired, and the continued success of Tylenol brand preparations are largely due to marketing, the backing and reputation of Johnson & Johnson, and new patented delivery mechanisms such as quick-release and extended-release forms of the medication.
Following the election of 1832, Johnson continued to campaign for the Vice Presidency which would be available in 1836 ; he was endorsed by the New York labor leader Ely Moore on March 13, 1833, nine days after Jackson and Van Buren were inaugurated.
Following the financial Panic of 1837, Johnson took a nine-month leave of absence, during which he returned home to Kentucky and opened a tavern and spa on his farm to offset his continued financial problems.
Undaunted by this lack of confidence from his peers, Johnson continued to campaign to retain his office.
Johnson continued to play with various jazz bands and orchestras into the early 1950s, sometimes working under other names.
The city returned to the fern industry after the war but also continued work in textiles and Johnson Electronics became a major employer for the city in the 1950s.
Bergen continued performing until his death in 1978, and his popularity inspired many other famous ventriloquists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, Jeff Dunham, Shari Lewis, Willie Tyler and Jay Johnson.
Dickinson continued to grow due to its proximity to Texas City, with its shipyards and wartime industries, and later its proximity to the Johnson Space Center.
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Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.
Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.
Johnson, aware of the uphill battle, interjected himself into the campaigns for the legislature in the election of 1857.
In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.
Johnson campaigned vigorously, undertaking a public speaking tour of the north, known as the " Swing Around the Circle "; the tour, including speeches in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, proved politically disastrous, with Johnson making distasteful and blasphemous comparisons between himself and Christ, and occasionally engaging in hostile and irrational arguments with hecklers.
The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".
He identified himself as a political independent although he held conservative opinions on several issues, including the Vietnam War ( he once wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. to defend the Johnson Administration's military policy ).
Johnson positioned himself as a moderate and succeeded in portraying Goldwater as an extremist.
Johnson was elected senator in November and went to Washington tagged with the ironic label " Landslide Lyndon ," which he often used deprecatingly to refer to himself.
Thus with the help of the judiciary committee led by Senator James Eastland, the bill ended up being far weaker than it originally started, but it still became law and Johnson tried to give himself credit for its passage.
After the election, Johnson found himself powerless.
Although many modern listeners believe that the premier song about soul-selling at a crossroads is " Cross Road Blues " by Robert Johnson, the song may be a description of standing at a cross roads and trying to " flag a ride " or hitch-hike ; the sense of foreboding coming from the singer's apprehension of finding himself, a young black man in the 1920s deep south, alone after dark and at the mercy of passing motorists.
Succeeding Frank Johnson in 1999, Johnson soon established himself as a competent and " colourful " editor.
At this time the paper began jokingly to be referred to as the ‘ Sextator ’ – a nickname for which Johnson himself was more than a little responsible – owing to the number of sex scandals connected with the magazine during his editorship.
I fear that Rooster did himself no credit in what they called the Johnson County War.
After leaving school he devoted himself to working with the mafia-associated Fulton-Rockaway Boys gang, where he met and befriended fellow future Gambino mobsters Angelo Ruggiero and Wilfred " Willie Boy " Johnson.
In September 1966, characterizing himself as a member of the loyal opposition, he publicly charged the Johnson administration with deception about Vietnam war costs and for delaying decisions to escalate the ground war until after the 1966 congressional elections.
Bokononism, founded by McCabe's accomplice Boyd Johnson ( pronounced " Bokonon " in San Lorenzan dialect ), however, is outlawed-an idea Bokonon himself conceived for the purpose of spreading the religion and making the residents of the island happier.
Johnson himself robbed Yastrzemski of a homer ( after the season, admitting that a fan in the stands put the ball in his glove ) was pulled out of the last game to ensure his batting title.
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