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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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Strategically, the period was dominated by Lyndon Johnson's fateful decision to escalate the war in South East Asia.
While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.
Konrad Adenauer's state funeral in Cologne Cathedral was attended by a large number of world leaders, among them United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson said: " His influence was universal and his works are invested with a permanent quality possessed by those of very few artists in our history ".
The Vietnam war conducted by liberal President Lyndon Johnson was a special target across the worldwide New Left.
Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention ; he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.
Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
As part of the Great Society programs under President Lyndon Johnson, the Head Start Program was started with the goal of early intervention to help socially disadvantaged children succeed by providing remedial education.
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson's speech outlining his Great Society program was given during U-M's 1964 spring commencement ceremony.
Owing to the introduction of the clad quarter in 1965, it was occasionally called a " Johnson Sandwich " after Lyndon B. Johnson, the U. S. President at the time.
These changes can be attributed to Robert McNamara who was appointed to the presidency in 1968 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was elected in his own right, defeating United States Senator Barry Goldwater in November.
** Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, " We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress.

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