This Was the Average Social Security Benefit in 1964, and Here's What It Is Now
The year 1964 was momentous. It's the year that the youngest baby boomers were born, for one thing. (The oldest were born in ...
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Day 1 signings don’t make us better, let alone great
Presidential signings once meant something. Not all of them, of course; some were as thin and inert as the paper upon which they were signed ...
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
In July 1964, the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative Arizona senator, whose radical right-wing rantings ...
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THE GREAT SOCIETY
a wave of sympathy and public support enabled President Johnson to pass a number of Kennedy Administration proposals including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Building on this momentum, Johnson ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Lincoln Continental Up For Auction
Johnson's convertible 1964 Lincoln Continental will be sold at auction on March 3. The vehicle, which the 36th American President drove until his death, will be auctioned by Dan Kruse Classics as ...
Roy S. Johnson: Trump’s pen-tossing Day One signings don’t make us better, let alone great
Trump's more than 100 (and counting) executive orders on Day One will prove to be more entertaining than effective.