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USS Enterprise (CVN-65) - Wikipedia

On 12 January 1962, the ship made her maiden voyage starting an extensive shakedown cruise and a lengthy series of tests and training exercises designed to determine the full capabilities of the nuclear powered super en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enter…

carrier.[39] On 20 February 1962, Enterprise was a tracking and measuring station for the flight of Friendship 7, the Project Mercury space capsule in which Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. made the first American orbital spaceflight.[40] Enterprise completed shakedown

activities at Naval Station Norfolk on 5 April 1961. Franke served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) from 1954 to 1957.[1] He served as Under Secretary of the Navy from April 1957 until June 1959.[2] As Secretary of the Navy at the end of

the Eisenhower administration, Franke was instrumental in developing and implementing new, modern technology for the United States Navy, including the use of nuclear-powered warships. Senator Carter Glass, although a fervid critic of Long, credited him with first suggesting

artificial scarcity as a solution to the depression.[Roosevelt considered Long a radical demagogue and stated that Long, along with General Douglas MacArthur, "was one of the two most dangerous men in America".

Roosevelt's son, Elliott, would later note that in this instance, his father "may have been the originator of the concept of employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution". Concerned Standard Oil employees formed a Square Deal association in Baton Rouge, organizing

themselves in militia companies and demanding "direct action". Long's bodyguards, nicknamed the "Cossacks" or "skullcrushers", then fired at Weiss with their pistols, killing him. The origins of the Cossacks are disputed. Originally, the term referred to semi-independent Tatar

groups (qazaq or "free men") who inhabited the "Wild Fields", or steppes, north of the Black Sea near the Dnieper River. During the Russian Civil War, Don and Kuban Cossacks were the first people to declare open war against the Bolsheviks. In 1918, Russian Cossacks declared

their complete independence, creating two independent states: the Don Republic and the Kuban People's Republic, and the Ukrainian State emerged. Cossack troops formed the effective core of the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and Cossack republics became centers for the anti-Bolshevik

White movement. With the victory of the Red Army, Cossack lands were subjected to decossackization and the Holodomor famine. As a result, during the Second World War, their loyalties were divided and both sides had Cossacks fighting in their ranks.

There are Cossack

organizations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, and the United States. Long's death brought relief to the Roosevelt Administration, which would win in a landslide in the 1936 election. Farley publicly admitted his apprehension of campaigning against Long: "I always laughed