Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

Division two will include the representations of Massachusetts and Texas, the respective states of the President and of Vice-President L. B. Johnson.

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.

Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.

During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.

There is no evidence that President Johnson knew of any illicit activities.

The most positive accomplishment during his Administration was the purchase of Alaska from Russia, though this was probably due more to the efforts of William H. Seward than President Johnson.

* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.

* Stewart, David, O. Impeached: the Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy ( 2009 ) Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.

* " The Impeachment trial of President Johnson ", Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1868

* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

* Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson ( 1994 ).

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941.

The initial military objectives of OEF-A, as articulated by Former President George W. Bush in his 20 September Address to a Joint Session of Congress and his 7 Oct address to the country, included the destruction of terrorist training camps and infrastructure within Afghanistan, the capture of al-Qaeda leaders, and the cessation of terrorist activities in Afghanistan.

During the 1960s Brzezinski articulated the strategy of peaceful engagement for undermining the Soviet bloc and while serving on the State Department Policy Planning Council, persuaded President Johnson to adopt in October 1966 peaceful engagement as U. S. strategy, placing détente ahead of German reunification and thus reversing prior U. S. priorities.

The Roosevelt Corollary is a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904.

Strongly opposed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies, Bender articulated his criticism in the polemical The Challenge of 1940 ( 1940 ).

Speaking on the Senate floor in 1992, Sen. Hank Brown said, " Mr. President, the trickle-down theory attributed to the Republican Party has never been articulated by President Reagan and has never been articulated by President Bush and has never been advocated by either one of them.

Former U. S. President George W. Bush articulated the goals of the " war on terror " in a September 20, 2001 speech, in which he said it " will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

Crisis Group President Gareth Evans served as co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty that first fully articulated the doctrine of the Responsibility to protect concept in 2001.

The conflict in Afghanistan, and the events that had launched the war, coincided with a reassessment of foreign policy by the administration, which President Bush articulated in his first State of the Union message on January 29, 2002.

In 1823, President James Monroe articulated what would come to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, which some have interpreted as non-interventionist in intent: " In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken part, nor does it comport with our policy, so to do.

Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.

The main mission of the reestablished regiment was to guarantee the security of the President of the Republic and of the Government Palace.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

This laid the foundation for a series of actions aiming to continue closing the access gap for minorities of virtually all categories in the decades to come, the most important of which was President John Brooks Slaughter's institution of the college's " mission statement ," an organizational declaration around which the entire college would function and aspire to both academic excellence and equity.

The mission statement was written just 18 months after Slaughter was appointed President in 1988.

On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.

However, on November 14, 2009, the New York Times announced that " President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement ... agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific " politically binding " agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future ".

: When the President determines that it is necessary to augment the active forces for any operational mission for any unit or any member for not more than 270 days.

On October 15, 2008, President Bush signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2008, giving NASA funding for one additional mission to " deliver science experiments to the station.

Aside from its scientific mission, since 1974, the Observatory is the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.

The OMB's predominant mission is to assist the President in overseeing the preparation of the federal budget and to supervise its administration in Executive Branch agencies.

In 1870, he was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and confirmed by the Senate, as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom to succeed John Lothrop Motley, but declined the mission.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: " The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado and / or other river may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.

As President of the UN Foundation ( UNF ) since its inception in early 1998, Wirth has organized and led the formulation of the Foundation ’ s mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children ’ s health, and peace, security and human rights.

After the book was published in 1953, the U. S. Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on Earth's Moon 16 years later in 1969 ; Two decades later, President George H. W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative ( SEI ) in 1989, calling for astronauts to eventually explore Mars.

During late-September, President Kennedy dispatched the McNamara Taylor mission to investigate the political and military situation in South Vietnam.

He went to China on a special mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and served as a delegate to the ninth Inter-American Conference in Colombia in 1948.

Shaath made news on 2005-10-07 by commenting for a BBC documentary that in a 2003 meeting with United States President George W. Bush, Bush told him and other Palestinian officials that Bush was " driven with a mission from God.

A popular expression America's mission was elaborated by President Abraham Lincoln's description, in his December 1, 1862 message to Congress.

The ordeal was finally resolved on August 4, when former U. S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Pyongyang in what he described as a " solely private mission " to secure the release of the two American journalists.

But, because the Corps had reached the Pacific in late November, they did not have much time to construct a winter fort before the cold weather set in, therefore choosing the Clatsop region because of the abundance of big game and its view of the Pacific — and they hoped to make contact with a fur trading ship to get word back to President Jefferson about the success of their mission.

Ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was a mission designed to demonstrate the Navy's capability to extend to the global theater.

They were received warmly by the President of the mission, José Bernardo Sánchez, who managed to hide any misgivings he might have had.

The operation failed, and because he had neither informed Colombia, Brazil, nor President Chirac of the mission, it resulted in a political scandal.