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- 101: Southern Voting Behavior Since
- ... conservative, or protector of Southern whites views. In the 1968 election Southern whites in the Deep South voted for George C. Wallace, while the rest of the South split on Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. In the Election of 1972 This trend seemed to continue, in that Nixon was the more conservative of the two Presidential Nominees and thus he carried the South. In the 1976 Election it seems that even the Southern whites were shaken by the ...
- 102: Sammy Davis Jr.
- ... Britt. They had Children, but Sammy’s devotion to his career led to their divorce. Sammy was active in politics. He supported Democrats until 1972, when he ran to President Nixon’s side. When questioned about selling out Sammy said that Nixon had bought him with good deeds for our country. Sammy met Altovise in London and they were married a few years later. When Sammy died May 16,1990, she was ...
- 103: John F. Kennedy
- ... The election drew a record 69 million voters to the polls, but Kennedy won by only 113, 000 votes."(Encarta' 95). He won49.7 percent of the popular vote, and Nixon won 49.6 percent. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes to Nixon's 219. Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he emphasized America's revolutionary heritage. "The same… beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at ...
- 104: Fidal Castro
- ... into a frenzy with wispy fallacies about American "imperialist" actions against Cuba was his main asset. He constantly found events which he could work the "ol Castro magic " on, as Nixon said , to turn it into another of the long list of grievances, real or imagined, that Cuba had suffered. Throughout Castro's rule there had been numerous minor attacks and ... invasion of Cuba. The fact that this secret was ill kept led to increased arms being shipped to Cuba by Russia in late 1960. President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower-Nixon administration the operation that became the Bay of Pigs expedition. The plan was ill conceived and a fiasco. Both Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger describe the President as the victim ...
- 105: Billy Graham
- ... them. Eisenhower and Kennedy were the first of the presidents to consult Graham on major public issues, and they embraced Graham's opinions as high as they held their own. Nixon, Ford and Johnson increased the consulting of the evangelist preacher and was proclaimed "America's Pastor." Nixon once told Graham "When you went into the ministry, politics lost one of its potentially greatest practitioners." They have said that Billy Graham's finest moment was when he showed ...
- 106: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... of Massachusetts. Kennedy, a northern Roman Catholic, then selected Johnson as his running mate to balance the Democratic ticket. In November 1960 the Democrats defeated the Republican candidates, Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, by a narrow margin. Johnson was appointed by Kennedy to head the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities, a post that enabled him to work ... on November 1, he failed to make real concessions at the peace table, and the war dragged on. Humphrey lost in a close race with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Retirement After stepping down from the presidency in January 1969, Johnson returned to his ranch in Texas. There he and his aides prepared his memoirs, which were published in 1971 ...
- 107: John Kennedy
- ... at age 43. This was due in part mainly by four televised debates. Although he answered the questions with total compliance, his appealing looks won him many votes over Richard Nixon. This was one of the closest election of all time. He won by one hundred thousand votes of more than sixty-nine million votes cast. Kennedy appointed Lyndon Baines Johnson ... president. He was also the first Roman Catholic President. John was inaugurated in January 1961, succeeding Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy won the Electoral College Vote by three hundred votes to Nixon's two hundred nineteen. Senator Byrd won fifteen votes. John was also the first Television President. In his Inaugural Address Kennedy stated "Let the word go forth from this time ...
- 108: John F. Kennedy
- ... The election drew a record 69 million voters to the polls, but Kennedy won by only 113, 000 votes."(Encarta' 95). He won49.7 percent of the popular vote, and Nixon won 49.6 percent. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes to Nixon's 219. Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he emphasized America's revolutionary heritage. "The same beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at ...
- 109: Fidel Castro 2
- ... into a frenzy with wispy fallacies about American "imperialist" actions against Cuba was his main asset. He constantly found events which he could work the "ol Castro magic " on, as Nixon said , to turn it into another of the long list of grievances, real or imagined, that Cuba had suffered. Throughout Castro's rule there had been numerous minor attacks and ... invasion of Cuba. The fact that this secret was ill kept led to increased arms being shipped to Cuba by Russia in late 1960. President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower-Nixon administration the operation that became the Bay of Pigs expedition. The plan was ill conceived and a fiasco. Both Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger describe the President as the victim ...
- 110: Eisenhower 2
- ... if they still fit." Eisenhower made his remark at a time when American forces readied for intervention in Venezuela, where a mob had threatened the life of Vice-President Richard Nixon, and in Lebanon, where rioters attacked an American library. The president, of course, din not don his uniform, but he did ultimately send marines ashore in Lebanon. He also intervened ... in Congress evaporated as Democrats- and even some Republicans- voted to increase spending to improve their chances in the fall elections. The final disappointment occurred when Vice-president Richard M. Nixon lost his bid to succeed Eisenhower in the White House. A year that began with hopes of peace ended with renewed cold war tensions, recession, and repudiation.
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