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"George Smathers had not become President merely to serve as a figurehead, despite his ready acquiescence to the post-Faubus constitutional reforms that had sharply limited the powers of the executive. He intended to pursue a clear reformist agenda and wanted to reassert..."
To the surprise of no one, the October 1, 1965 referendum on the final status of the Black Territory of Libertas agreed to under the terms of the Treaty of Albany [1] resulted in a landslide victory for the independence option.
Just days into the new year, Britain announced the first flight of the Meteor C.2, the next generation of their high speed rocket research plane. Unlike previous designs, which were mostly high speed test vehicles derived from a rejected rocket interceptor design, the C.2...
As the relentless tide of expansion pushed westward, it was the railroads that opened up the frontier. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which birthed bleeding Kansas and many cite as one of the critical catalysts for the Secession Crisis and Confederate War of Independence...
Authorized under President Stassen in 1957 as a response to the British Glorious class Battlecruisers and the German Friedrich der Grosse class Fast Battleships, the eight Arizonas were intended to serve as the backbone of the American capital ship fleet of the 1960s [1].
[Humphrey]: "...the doctors. I mean, no matter what we put forward, they're going to oppose it. It's against their interests to actually address the problem here."
The youngest of the Nixon brothers, Edward Nixon was born on May 3, 1930, making him a full 17 years younger than his presidential sibling.
In the aftermath of the War of Secession, with the Potomac suddenly the border with a hostile nation, the once centrally located Washington D.C. seemed frightfully exposed.
It is said that no European tragedy can bypass the Balkans, and so it was for the fateful Spring of '64
With the upper chamber now possessing a constitutionally powerful leader, the longtime institutional power held by the Senate was expanded. Now the upper chamber, which had long maintained an effective monopoly on the legislative process, had a powerful voice in foreign affairs.
Nearly all of the Redemption Party members of Congress and state governments were expelled or forced to retire.
While the Nationals had been swept into government over disagreements with Crerar's handling of the war, they had managed to accomplish little on that front except kill conscription.
Initially created as little more than a rubber stamp for the American occupying forces, as a pliant puppet from which to extract an incredibly one-sided peace treaty, the new Republic of Canada was founded with little national identity or public support.
The cities of Tennessee, from Nashville to Chattanooga, were some of the very first in the Confederacy to industrialize.
In 1963, the US and Germany had each launched small pathfinder satellites. The next year would see each make serious progress in actual exploration of space, and they would be joined by the other great power in the heavens.
Swept into office in 1958, winning a landslide against the ruling Conservative government of Lord Poole amidst the global financial crisis, the Labour/Liberal Coalition quickly returned to its position as the natural party of British governance.
In the Senate, where the results were largely a wash, the Democrats managed a net pickup of one seat, finally ending the Progressive supermajority in the upper chamber.
The Humphrey-Magnuson ticket had led in every poll, matching or exceeding the numbers Nixon had been putting up before the convention.
But if anyone was going to fill them, it would be Hubert Humphrey. In the tortured and confused days after the assassination, as the President lay dying in a Baltimore Hospital, and then the chaos and spectacle of the funeral, Humphrey felt his nerves tested.
Never since the days of William Jennings Bryan had the Progressive Party revolved to such a degree around a single man. And it had been decades since one President, as contentious as Nixon was sometimes, had been such a beloved and respected figure.