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Eventually, Johnson ordered the Fenians disarmed and barred from crossing the border.
A full china service had not been purchased since the Truman administration in the 1940s, as only a partial service was ordered in the Johnson administration.
* 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of " all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam " effective November 1.
The five students — Allison Reynolds ( Ally Sheedy ), Andrew Clark ( Emilio Estevez ), John Bender ( Judd Nelson ), Brian Johnson ( Anthony Michael Hall ), and Claire Standish ( Molly Ringwald )— who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic assistant principal, Richard Vernon ( Paul Gleason ), supervising them.
* October 31 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of " all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam " effective November 1.
President Johnson ordered that confiscated or abandoned lands administered by the Freedman's Bureau would not be redistributed to the freedmen but be returned to pardoned owners.
After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson ordered in more US forces to support the Saigon government, beginning a protracted United States presence in Southeast Asia.
After the skirmish, President Johnson ordered the Maddox and Turner Joy to stage daylight runs into North Vietnamese waters, testing the twelve-mile ( 19 km ) limit and North Vietnamese resolve.
Early on the 5 August Johnson publicly ordered retaliatory measures stating, " The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage.
President Johnson, who was up for election that year, ordered retaliatory air strikes and went on national television on August 4.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president " to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U. S. and to prevent further aggression.
In fact, on March 31, 1968, just a month after Clifford arrived at The Pentagon, Johnson, in an effort to get peace talks started, ordered the cessation of bombing north of the 20th parallel, an area comprising almost 80 percent of North Vietnam's land area and 90 percent of its population.
Richard Johnson eventually ordered a suicide squad of twenty men to ride forward and draw the Indians ' fire, planning to charge with the rest as they reloaded.
Early in the morning of April 12, negotiations with Anderson had failed and aides of Beauregard, sent to deal personally with Anderson, ordered the first shots of the American Civil War to be fired from nearby Fort Johnson.
After the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins because of a sexual misdemeanor in the run up to the 1964 election, President Lyndon B. Johnson, alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach, ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find " derogatory " material on their personal lives.
Johnson ordered him suspended, but Frazee instead sold him to the then-moribund Yankees.
Miller was spotted by Lieutenant Commander Doir C. Johnson, the ship's communications officer, who ordered the powerfully built sailor to accompany him to the bridge to assist with moving the ship's Captain Mervyn Bennion, who had a gaping wound in his abdomen where he had apparently been hit by shrapnel.
U. S. News and World Report claimed in its November 20, 1967 issue to have confirmation of the reality of the report from an unnamed government official, who added that when President Johnson read the report, he ' hit the roof ' and ordered it to be suppressed for all time.
On 9 June, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered an F-100 strike against the enemy in retaliation for the shoot down of another U. S. aircraft.
Hoping to end the conflict diplomatically, Gage ordered Colonel John Bradstreet and Colonel Henry Bouquet out on military expeditions and also ordered Sir William Johnson to engage in peace negotiations.
In August 1964, as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which U. S. naval vessels claimed to have been attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes ( Operation Pierce Arrow ) launched against the north.
Johnson ordered nearly all of the Army inventories of surplus World War II tanks, communications equipment, personnel carriers, and small arms be scrapped or sold off to other countries instead of being shipped to ordnance and storage depots for reconditioning and storage.
General Harrison surveyed the battlefield and ordered James Johnson ( brother of Richard Mentor Johnson ) to make a frontal attack against the British regulars with his mounted Kentucky riflemen.

Johnson and Marine
* LouAnne Johnson, writer, teacher and former United States Marine
* Daniel Johnson, recipient of the Navy / Marine Corps Medal and former candidate for Congress
The period from 1928 – 36 saw the establishment of the Johnson Motor Company / Outboard Marine ( the makers of motorised boat engines ) as an outgrowth of the original industry.
After college, Johnson served in the South Pacific with the United States Marine Corps during World War II.
Shortly after his appointment, Johnson had a conversation with Admiral Richard L. Connally, giving a revealing look at his attitudes towards the Navy and Marine Corps and any need for non-nuclear forces:
Both Truman and Johnson extended their opposition to the Navy in their treatment of the U. S. Marine Corps.
" Johnson exploited this ill feeling of Truman's to reduce or eliminate many Marine Corps ' budget requests.
Johnson attempted to eliminate Marine Corps aviation by transferring its air assets to other services, and proposed to progressively eliminate the Marine Corps altogether in a series of budget cutbacks and decommissioning of forces.
More ominously, Johnson barred the Commandant of the Marine Corps from attending Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ) meetings in his role of chief of service ( including meetings involving Marine readiness or deployments ).
Johnson did not limit his budget-cutting campaign to the Navy or Marine Corps.
Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.
* Johnson, Douglas H ; Shaffer, Terry L and Gould, Patrick J ( 1990 ) Incidental Catch of Marine Birds in the North Pacific High Seas Driftnet Fisheries U. S. Geological Survey.
The three Marine casualties were Sgt John D. Harvey, Cpl George N. Holmes Jr., and SSgt Dewey L Johnson.
Around the world, a combination of tectonic coastal uplift and Quaternary sea-level fluctuations has resulted in the formation of marine terrace sequences, most of which were formed during separate interglacial highstands that can be correlated to Marine Oxygen Isotopic Stages ( MIS ) ( for example, Johnson and Libbey ( 1997 ).
* Daniel Johnson ( naval officer ), recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and 2008 candidate for U. S. Congress from North Carolina
On August 13, 1918, Opha Mae Johnson became the first female Marine when she enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve ; over 300 women served in the Marines during World War One, performing duties within the United States so that the male Marines could fight overseas.
Awarded the Johnson Space Center Certificate of Commendation ( 1970 ); the NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1973 ); presented the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and Navy Astronaut Wings ( 1974 ), the City of Chicago Gold Medal ( 1974 ), the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973, the Marine Corps Aviation Association's Exceptional Achievement Award ( 1974 ), the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's V. M.
* OMC / Johnson Marine, USA
Johnson was implicated by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler in the Business Plot, an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in testimony before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, whose deliberations began on November 20, 1934 and culminated in the Committee's report to the United States House of Representatives on February 15, 1935.

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