Johnson, President Lyndon

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. 

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. 

President Lyndon B. Johnson declares that the alcoholic suffers from a disease. The American Civil Liberties Union... 

President Lyndon Johnson expressed the hope, We shall never achieve a free and prosperous and hopeful society until we have suppressed the fires of hate and we have turned aside from violence—whether that violence comes from the nightriders of the Klan, or the snipers and the looters in the Watts district, neither old wrongs nor new fears can ever justify arson or murder. ... 

Public Papers of the Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson [PPP LBJ]. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963-8. 

Haddon, an epidemiological researcher, was chosen by US President Lyndon Johnson as his head of highw safety. Crash zones, airbags and collapsible roadside furniture are a result of Haddon s influence. 

The presidential Press Secretary, George Reedy, stated that President Lyndon Johnson had not been consulted. According to Reedy, authority for tear gas use had been delegated to area commanders for many years. " Doubts remained, however, about the extent of the President s knowledge of and involvement in the decision to use gas there were reports that President Johnson had personally been involved in authorising the use of irritants in December 1964, and it has since been pointed out that the US Army procured 170000 kg of CS for Southeast Asia requirements in 1963-64. Johnson himself was to say later that he had known of the decision, but it did not require his authorisation. ... 

Two months after the Vehicle Safety Act and Highway Safety Act were signed by President Lyndon Johnson, the National Traffic Safety Agency and National Highway Safety Agency were established within the Department of Commerce and William Haddon was appointed as Administrator of both. In April of 1967 the two safety agencies were transferred into the Department of Transportation and three years later became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). 

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. 

Even if the president had been a strong proponent of comprehensive reform, he would have encountered impediments that Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon did not have to overcome. As a confluence of crises engulfed the nation, the business community s idea and influence infrastructures were firmly in place, and they worked overtime to forestall change. The conservative media echo chamber and industry lobbyists effectively channeled public outrage at corporate malfeasance into... 

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