Assessing Claims About Trump’s Revocation of an LBJ Executive Order
President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...
Presidential historian William Leuchtenburg dies at 102
NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.
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Billl O’Reilly Warns Trump Can’t Strong-Arm Senate Into Confirming RFK: ‘Most of Those People Will Still Be in Office’ When He Leaves
Bill O'Reilly said President Donald Trump would not be able to pressure members of the Senate like he is able to pressure ...
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
The strange death of Affirmative Action
Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, which required racially diverse hiring from federal contractors, had survived five ...
Why President Johnson Signed the Executive Order in 1965 That Trump Rescinded
The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...
Trump doesn't only want to end DEI. He's also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule.
President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...
Trump revoked an anti-discrimination hiring rule. Here’s what it means.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...
New Mount Soledad plaque honors Naval pilot who earned Medal of Honor in Vietnam
Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...
Donald Trump takes aim at diversity initiatives, bedrock civil rights: 5 takeaways
While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...
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The naming of RFK Stadium was a classic tale of Washington intrigue
In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...