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President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That incident is now in the spotlight ...
On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.
President Theodore Roosevelt didn’t use a Bible when he took his oath of office in 1901, and in 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson used a liturgical book when he was sworn into office aboard Air ...
White Sands Test Center Commander Col. Matthew Johnson administered the oath of enlistment to Bitar, who is joining the Air Force Reserves and will be commissioned as an officer once he completes ...
It appears the Trump exit strategy will leave it up to the two combatants — Russia and Ukraine — to end the war.
Bill Moyers, a presidential press secretary who approved one of the most infamous negative political ads in US history before ...
After the Civil War, Sumner advanced a civil rights bill that would have gone even further than the law President Lyndon Johnson signed a century later. We are having trouble retrieving the ...
Lyndon Johnson had good reason: to protect Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, ... It takes unusually bad federal policy for me to quote Gov. Gavin Newsom approvingly, but he was spot on.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was the nominee. Thelma supported Johnson. Milton did not. He and other white Mississippi delegates passed the following resolution before the convention: “We oppose, ...
It was only after Lyndon Johnson’s electoral rout of Goldwater threatened to cast the conservative movement back into exile that Buckley attempted a full-throated excommunication.