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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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

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

With the money all but in hand, however, the Administration indicated that, instead of the 225,000 more men in uniform that President Kennedy had requested, the armed forces would be increased by only 160,000.

In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.

After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Somparé requested that the President of the Supreme Court, Lamine Sidimé, declare a vacancy in the Presidency and apply the constitution.

In light of the progress made, President Bryant requested an end to the UN embargo on Liberian diamonds ( since March 2001 ) and timber ( since May 2003 ), but the Security Council postponed such a move until the peace was more secure.

Under international pressure, President Sirleaf requested in March 2006 that Nigeria extradite Charles Taylor, who was then brought before an international tribunal in Sierra Leone to face charges of crimes against humanity, arising from events during the Sierra Leone civil war ( his trial was later transferred to The Hague for security purposes ).

In August 1912, the President of Nicaragua, Adolfo Díaz, requested the resignation of the Secretary of War, General Luis Mena, concerned he was leading an insurrection.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

; Appointment of a Committee of Privileges: The President may, if requested to do so by the Seanad, establish a Committee of Privileges to solve a dispute between the two Houses of the Oireachtas as to whether or not a bill is a money bill.

The President of the Republic enjoys immunity during his term: he cannot be requested to testify before any jurisdiction, he cannot be prosecuted, etc.

In the 1860s in the United States, U. S. President Abraham Lincoln had requested many millions of dollars from Congress with which to compensate slave owners for the loss of their slaves.

In July 1958, President Eisenhower requested that Lawrence travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to help negotiate a proposed treaty with the Soviet Union to ban nuclear weapons testing.

John Russell Young died in January 1899, and “ President William McKinley found himself faced with the responsibility of appointing a Librarian of Congress who should preside over the affairs of the institution whose building had been completed but years ago .” President McKinley requested Herbert Putnam to be appointed to the task, and Putnam was officially confirmed to the duties of Librarian of Congress on December 12, 1899.

At the outset, Garfield's relationship with the newly inaugurated President was cool on both sides ; Grant refused a requested post office appointment which Garfield recommended ; Garfield, out of loyalty to his army commander, still harbored some resentment for Grant's dismissal of Rosecrans.

Following this report, which also claimed that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme, then President Francesco Cossiga requested the opening of investigations while the CIA itself officially denied these allegations.

Shortly before midnight on August 4, President Johnson made a speech by radio in which he described an attack by North Vietnamese vessels on two U. S. Navy warships, USS Maddox and and requested authority to undertake a military response.

In his budget proposal for fiscal year 2009, President George W. Bush requested $ 38. 7 billion-or 86. 5 % of the total Veterans Affairs budget-for veteran medical care alone.

In April 2009, Senator John McCain, along with Representative Peter King, filmmaker Ken Burns and Johnson's great-niece, Linda Haywood, requested a presidential pardon for Johnson from President Barack Obama.

" When President Abraham Lincoln requested that Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War, the state responded by raising a total of 23 volunteer infantry regiments for three months of service.

The original orchestral score was requested by the White House for the inauguration of President Reagan.

In 2001 the Salvation Army sought a change in distribution regulations for the $ 24 billion in new federal grants and tax deductions for charitable institutions requested by President George W. Bush.

United States President James Buchanan personally requested prosecution of the group ( now referred to by sympathetic parties as " the Rescuers "), and 37 of them were indicted.

Also in an interview with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago by the Philippine Star in March 25, 2012 she shared her experience as a speech writer to President Marcos: " one time, the Secretary of Justice forgot to tell me that the President had requested him to draft a speech that the President was going to deliver before graduates of the law school.