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Dwight David Eisenhower January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

"I like Ike"

WWII General, Internat'l War Hero, "conqueror of Hitler"

Prosperity

Alaska & Hawaii become 49th & 50th States

Surgeon Genl links smoking to cancer

SCOTUS decisions: Brown v Education, and Brown II

99 Democrat Sens & Reps sign "Southern Manifesto" opposing desegregation

Gave warning against the "military industrial-complex"

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Don't Know Much About the American Presidents

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Lyndon Baines Johnson November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969

one of FDR's most loyal New Dealers

"Great Society" (largest govt expansion since FDR's New Deal)

1of4 Pres. to also be Rep, Sen., VP.

"hobo's life" youth

"Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" handed Congress war power to Pres

VietNam quagmire

Voting Rights Act

SCOTUS' Loving v Virginia

MLK & RFK assassinated

Chose NOT to re-run for Pres 1968

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963

Youngest Pres

1st Catholic
Protestants Billy Graham & Norman Vincent called opposed pope-loyal pres

Joe McCarthy friends of JFK's father

1st Pres TV debate
Fresh JFK outshined Nixon
Closest election to date

Bay Of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis
Details 25 yrs later: Deal struck w/USSR

Racist Southern Dems
Peace Corps
Assassinated
Jackie O

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