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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.
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 )
* Lyndon Baines Johnson Day ( Texas )
* 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.
It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.
* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
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.
* 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
In 1968, Alston received a presidential appointment from Lyndon Johnson to the National Council of Culture and the Arts.
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.
Every president after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
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.
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.

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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 votes of each legislator are counted in proportion to the number of people that said legislator represents ( for example, if a legislator from Olean has 10, 000 people in his / her district, and the legislator serving Lyndon only has 5, 000, the Lyndon legislator's vote has only half the worth of the Olean legislator's ).
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 ".
Following Cronkite's editorial report, President Lyndon Johnson is claimed by some to have said, " If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.
He said the codename the conspirators gave for the operation was " The Big Event ," and that Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the assassination and assigned Cord Meyer to implement the details.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was said to have not accepted the " advice of his economists ".
* Lyndon Johnson is said to have been the Governor of Texas – an office he never held.
Upon leaving her seat as delegate from Hawaii, Elizabeth P. Farrington said, " Of course, Lyndon Johnson was no friend of statehood.
Lyndon LaRouche, when asked about the matter, said, " I don't know anything about it and I never looked into it, but I do know that the liberal press uses undercover press practices that are abhorrent and beneath description.
Warren J. Hamerman, Chair of the NDPC, said the searches " conducted by Donald Regan's associate William Weld's forces against presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's headquarters coincides with Don Regan's desperate attempts to maintain the cover-up on AIDS ".
Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that " Tom Hayden changed America ", calling him " father to the largest mass protests in American history ", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, " without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society.
In a 1960 oral history interview with the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, Hébert said that he never participated in any elections other than his own House races — not president, governor, U. S. senator, or mayor of New Orleans.
Subsequently, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Robertson to support federal funding for a multimillion-dollar cultural center in Colorado and Robertson said he would if Johnson would support one in Norfolk.
The movie starts with a voice over stating that in an interview, President Lyndon Johnson was asked about the Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission report: he said he doubted seriously the findings of the Commission.
As chairman of a Council committee investigating a 1968 protest against a speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which turned into the Century Plaza riot, Wilkinson said that " some undue force " was used by the officers but that " If some of the good citizens were handled rather roughly in the ensuing melee, probably they should blame the parade leaders rather than the police.

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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 Vietnam war conducted by liberal President Lyndon Johnson was a special target across the worldwide New Left.
Lyndon B. Johnson was the only president under the amendment to be eligible to serve more than two terms in total, having served for only fourteen months following John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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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