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2 days ago by A. E.

L’ancien secrétaire à la Défense américain Robert McNamara est mort lundi à son domicile de Washington, à l’âge de 93 ans. On le considérait comme l’architecte de l’intervention américaine au Vietnam. Secrétaire à la défense de 1961 à 1968, sous la présidence de John F. Kennedy puis de Lyndon B. Joh ...

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2 days ago by La Redaction

L’ancien secrétaire à la Défense américain Robert McNamara est mort lundi à son domicile de Washington, à l’âge de 93 ans. On le considérait comme l’architecte de l’intervention américaine au Vietnam. Secrétaire à la défense de 1961 à 1968, sous la présidence de John F. Kennedy puis de Lyndon B. Joh ...

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2 days ago by TAGG

clipped from www.nytimes.comAfter the War Was OverBy BOB HERBERTRobert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson’s icy-veined, cold-visaged and rigidly intellectual point man for a war that sent thousands upon thousands of people (most of them young) to their utterly pointless deaths, has died at the ripe old age of ...

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3 days ago by amyers

The eighth United States Secretary of Defense who served under John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson has passed away in his sleep early this morning at the age of 93.

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38 days ago by hotoffthepress2

Veteran national security reporter George C. Wilson warns in a Congress Daily article today that “voices from the grave make me fear that President Obama and Congress are unwittingly setting up the American military for another Vietnam-type failure in Afghanistan.” Among the “voices” cited in the pi ...

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50 days ago by Pliable

Stephen Spender was conscious always of being a foreigner in Washington, with the guest's obligations. He none the less picked up some good insider LBJ stories. One of his favourites was from Abba Eban. The urbane Israeli ambassador recalled 'that when he visited the President on a mission for his c ...

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67 days ago by Kriston

The Silver Star is the third highest decoration a member of any branch of the military may receive. It is awarded for “gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States. It differs from the next higher decoration in that one does not have to be in a position of great responsibility to receiv ...

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68 days ago by m.v.

I didn’t realize that my Independence, MO theme weekend coincides with the Truman Days ( TKC knew). Today’s old photo trivia question is: Where was the Medicare bill signed? Act of 1965 was passed by Congress in late-spring of 1965 and signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson ...

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81 days ago by Moreover Technologies - Search results for... ...

student enrolled in U.S. history that President Lyndon B. Johnson?s social programs of the 1960s created Medicare and Medicaid, causing the number of entitlement programs to proliferate, while spending for such programs surged exponentially in the 60s

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89 days ago by scysys

1713 Der Friede von Utrecht beendet den Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg. 1945 Das Konzentrationslager Buchenwald bei Weimar wird von US-truppen befreit. 1968 US-Präsident Lyndon B. Johnson unterzeichnet ein Brgerrechtsgesetz “Fair Housing Act”, dass insbesondere die Diskriminierung von Schwarzen auf dem Wo ...

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