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...What mistakes did President Lyndon Johnson make dealing with the military...
Open revolts by the top military brass against their civilian minders are rare but not unprecedented. General MacArthur objected to Harry Truman's handling of the Korean War and was fired in 1951. The Air Force didn't like the way Lyndon Johnson handpicked bombing targets during the Vietnam War. And Bill Clinton had to back down after he ordered the Pentagon to openly admit homosexuals in 1993 by settling on the narrower "Don't ask, don't tell" policy...
Image mattered to LYNDON JOHNSON, whose three Oval Office TV sets let him monitor the three major networks at once--and revealed his obsession with how the news media viewed him and his Administration...
...senior History thesis on the foreign policies of former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy ’40, and Lyndon B. Johnson, Yoo’s current views on the centralization of power in the White House may be seen in his re-reading of the presidents’ foreign policy toward Europe and their relations with Congress...
That particular identity was made possible 40 years ago, in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act. Exclusion laws passed in the early 1900s had reduced Asian immigration to a trickle. In 1965, the year the Civil Rights Act came into effect, says New York University sociologist Guillermina Jasso, "the racist elements of immigration law were abolished." Annual per-country quotas shot from 100?yes, 100?for most Asian nations to 20,000, with preferences for close relatives of U.S. citizens and those skilled in fields with labor shortages, like medicine. The new law unleashed...