Johnson. Lyndon

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IV motion of minority candidates in both the workplace and in colleges and universities. President Lyndon Johnson, speaking at Howard University in 1965, apdy explained the reasoning behind affirmative action. As he said, You do not take a man who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him to the starting line in... 

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In the 1960s the rhetoric of war began to be applied to the effort to overcome social problems. The first well-known example was the War on Poverty proclaimed by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. And when Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, he called for a war on drugs. He had little patience with the complexity of the problem, declaring that, The country should stop looking for root causes of crime and put its money instead into increasing the number of police. Immediate and decisive force must be the first response. 

The work was supported, in part, by NASA-Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston. The authors acknowledge the efforts and confidence of Mr. R. R. Richard of NASA the experimental research of Dr. J. P. Masson, and the advice and criticism of Drs. H. Steinfink, J. Stark, and W. C. Duesterhoeft of the University of Texas at Austin. 

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, "Fabricating Grating Couplers on Optical Fibers", NASA Technical Briefs, 7, MSC-20286, (1983)... 

The reader has already been shown that the Kennedy Administration installed in the White House by the 1960 elections was sponsored by the British Round Table (see Part III). Under Kennedy, American involvement in Vietnam — which had been vetoed by the Eisenhower Administration — was initiated on a limited scale. Under Lyndon Johnson, American military presence in Vietnam began in earnest. Johnson s principal Vietnam advisor was not even American. He was a British officer, Sir Robert Thompson, whose entire career had been spent conducting counterinsurgency warfare in Southeast Asia. Playing on the President s "yahoo" anticommunist profile,... 

President John F. Kermedy made Medicare a major election issue in 1960, but it was not unhl Lyndon Johnson achieved a landslide victory, accompanied by Democrahc control of Congress, thaf another defining step was taken in the history of health insurance coverage. In 1965, Congress amended the Social Security Act to implement Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid to help states pay for health services for their very low-income parents and children. 

Pollution now is one of the most pervasive problems of our society, wrote President Lyndon Johnson in a report titled Restoring the Quality of Our Environment, published by the White House in November 1965. 

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