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3 days ago · Robert Strange McNamara ( / ˈmæknəmærə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office ...
1 day ago · The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president ...
5 days ago · The meaning of GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION is resolution put before the United States Congress by President Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 5, 1964, following allegedly unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin between August 2 and August 4. Its stated purpose was to approve and support the ...
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6 days ago · President Lyndon Johnson possessed remarkable powers of persuasion. Standing at 6’4”, he used his physical size, humor, and oratorical gifts to intimidate his political opponents. President Lyndon B. Johnson Meets with Senator Richard Russell, December 17, 1963. Photograph by Yoichi Okamoto. Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and ...
4 days ago · Description. In January, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson met with civil rights leaders and told them that he would push for a law protecting voting rights after Congress passed an education bill and Medicare. Civil rights leaders refused to wait. After they were violently attacked on March 7 during a peaceful protest march in Selma, Alabama ...
6 days ago · Signing ceremony for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson, seated at a table with his childhood schoolteacher, Ms. Kate Deadrich Loney. Before graduating from Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Johnson spent a year teaching at the Welhausen School in Cotulla, Texas. His experience with Cotulla’s ...
