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Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".
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The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.
* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )
* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him
On April 20, Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up.
* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
* Lyndon B. Johnson often met with important advisors at the retreat and hosted Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.
* C. R. Smith ( Cyrus Rowlett Smith ), U. S. Secretary of Commerce under president Lyndon B. Johnson
He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
Prime Minister Harold Holt with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1966.
Holt also forged a close relationship with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, whom he had first met in Melbourne in 1942.
Holt during a visit to US president Lyndon B. Johnson 1 June 1967
Keller met every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.
On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States ' two highest civilian honors.
* 1967 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U. S. Supreme Court.
* 1967 – Cold War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
* 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law.
* 1968 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
* 1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his " Great Society " during his State of the Union address.
* 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a " War on Poverty " in the United States.
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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.
John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.
He then switches back to a consideration of the seven principal Presidential hopefuls: five Democrats -- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Adlai E. Stevenson and Mr. Kennedy -- and two Republicans -- Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon.
It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.
In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.
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* Lyndon Baines Johnson Day ( Texas )
In 1968, Alston received a presidential appointment from Lyndon Johnson to the National Council of Culture and the Arts.
Every president after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position.
In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.
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They had three children: daughters Cady and Lyndon ( aka Lyn ) and a son, William.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, " We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress.
He had a strong base of support in Chicago's Irish Catholic community, and he was treated by national politicians such as Lyndon B. Johnson as a preeminent Irish American, with special connections to the Kennedy family.
In the week before the convention opened, Kennedy received two new challengers when Lyndon B. Johnson, the powerful Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the party's nominee in 1952 and 1956, officially announced their candidacies ( they had both privately been working for the nomination for some time ).
Because President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party ’ s candidate for the office.
A State Department study noted that when King Hussein met on 8 November with Lyndon Johnson, who had been briefed by Secretary Rusk on the US interpretation, the Jordanian Monarch asked how soon the Israeli troops would withdraw from most of the occupied lands.
From 1963 to 1973 the area had a different name as US President Lyndon Johnson by executive order renamed the area " Cape Kennedy.
According to Robert Caro, " On November 5, 1960, Lyndon Johnson won election for both the vice presidency of the United States, on the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and for a third term as Senator ( he had Texas law changed to allow him to run for both offices ).
The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Military officers had revolted against the provisional Junta to restore Bosch, whereupon U. S. President Lyndon Johnson, under the pretext of eliminating Communist influence in the Caribbean sent 42, 000 U. S. troops to defeat the revolt in Operation Power Pack, on April 28.
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.
LeMay felt that Lyndon Johnson had lied to him on several occasions, and Hubert Humphrey, if elected, would do the same.
Although Capehart thought he had enough votes to pass his amendment ( even going so far as to tell Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on the morning of the vote, " this time I'm going to rub your nose in shit.
When three civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, he reportedly told President Lyndon Johnson that the incident was a hoax and there was no Ku Klux Klan in the state, surmising that the three had gone to Chicago :< ref >
U. S. President Lyndon Johnson and Westmoreland argued that panicky news coverage gave the public the unfair perception that America had been defeated.
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963.
In an interview with the Irish media, Peck revealed that former President Lyndon Johnson had told him that, had he sought re-election in 1968, he intended to offer Peck the post of U. S. ambassador to Ireland – a post Peck, due to his Irish ancestry, said he might well have taken, saying " would have been a great adventure ".
Westmoreland repeatedly rebuffed or suppressed attempts by John Paul Vann and Lew Walt to shift to a " pacification " strategy Westmoreland had little appreciation of the patience of the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince President Lyndon B. Johnson to approve widening the war into Cambodia and Laos in order to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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