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 ).

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Several hours after the attack French President Jacques Chirac ordered the destruction of the Ivorian air force and the seizure of Yamoussoukro airport.

France immediately severely denounced the coup, and backed by the 1978 defense agreement with the Comoros, President Jacques Chirac ordered his special forces to retake the island.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

* 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

The year after it appeared, President Kennedy ordered his Science Advisory Committee to investigate Carson's claims.

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa withdrew his government's ambassador in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered troops to the country's border following a Colombian raid against leftist rebels inside Ecuador March 2, 2008.

On May 16, 1996, U. S. President Bill Clinton ordered the removal of the American mines.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ma Bufang was fully supported by the Kuomintang President of China Chiang Kaishek, who ordered him to prepare his Muslim army to invade Tibet several times and threatened aerial bombardment on the Tibetans.

* During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln accused newspapers in the border states of bias in favor of the Southern cause, and ordered many newspapers closed.

People were ordered from their homes and told to lock all windows and doors, by police, at least an hour prior to President Banda passing by ... we were expected to wave.

President Obama ordered in July 2012 the U. S. Treasury Department to issue two licenses, one giving special permission for investment in Burma and the other allowing financial services.

As soon as he was able, President Jefferson ordered Levi Lincoln, who was the new administration's Attorney General and acting Secretary of State until the arrival of James Madison, not to deliver the remaining appointments.

Secretary of State Madison was ordered by President Jefferson to withhold the commissions made at the last minute by outgoing President Adams.

In January 1790 President Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, " Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to ", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report.

In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya.

* 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.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval " quarantine " of the Communist nation.

To " protect " the Texas national archives, President Sam Houston ordered them removed from Austin.

To effect that, President Chirac ordered Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to seize the Constitutional Council of France, whose decision would allow repealing the law.

On 5 March 2009, the same day that President Omar al-Bashir was indited by the ICC, the Sudanese government ordered the closure of SUDO, and its offices were taken over by state security forces.

In May 1967 President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the UN peacekeeping forces out of Sinai, including the Suez Canal area.

Also during the 1990s, President Bill Clinton maintained sanctions and ordered air strikes in the " Iraqi no-fly zones " ( Operation Desert Fox ), in the hope that Saddam would be overthrown by political enemies inside Iraq.