The run-up to the 1968 election was transformed in 1967 when Minnesota’s Democratic senator, Eugene J. McCarthy, challenged Democratic Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson on his Vietnam War policies. Johnson had succeeded to the presidency in 1963, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and had been overwhelmingly reelected in 1964. Early in his term he was immensely popular, but U.S. involvement in Vietnam, which had escalated invisibly during the presidential administrations of both Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kennedy, became highly visible with rapidly increasing U.S. death tolls, and, as the war’s unpopularity mounted, so did Johnson’s.
Things were going along as they did in the 50s but tv was more influential. It was influential in a few ways.
<span>Music was a mixed bag with a couple stations playing swing and polkas and a couple playing gospel and blues while rock and roll was going strong...hard rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, hill billy rock, Detroit rock, Philadelphia rock, and even some home grown Chicago rockers. </span>
<span>TV brought us the news. People became news obssessed...men walking on the Moon, Political assassinations, the never ending war in Vietnam, racial turmoil, the Beatles, Mayor Daley never ending terms, political unrest in :incoln and Grant Parks while the poilice bash in heads while theworld watches...on live tv. </span>
Answer: Ashoka promoted Buddhist expansion by sending monks to surrounding territories to share the teachings of the Buddha. A wave of conversion began, and Buddhism spread not only through India, but also internationally. Some scholars believe that many Buddhist practices were simply absorbed into the tolerant Hindu faith.
A. He was the guy that helped with three major compromises and is known as the great compromiser.
<span>In a representative democracy the power of government officials is primarily checked by "C. another branch," since this is what is referred to as "checks and balances". </span>
