Lyndon Johnson and his push for civil rights for African Americans.
Johnson continued the push for civil rights that had been started by President John F. Kennedy. In the emotional days after JFK's assassination, President Johnson said in an address to Congress: "<span>No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed within months after the Kennedy assassination. The act outlawed discrimination in public places and in employment practices, and provided for integration of public schools.
Incidentally, in defense of Gerald Ford and his fight against high unemployment -- by the end of Ford's term in office, the unemployment rate had begun to improve. But it was too little, too late, and his reelection bid failed. (Voters also were reacting against the Republican administration due to the Nixon Watergate scandal.)</span>
Isolationism is the answer for the first one
Freemasons were the members of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons that is a worldwide secret society.
Many of the founding fathers were freemasons, like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Marshall. So nine of the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence were Masons and 13 of the 39 that signed the US Constitution were also masons.
He was extremely vicious in his fighting for abolition. He would attack and kill people who supported slavery. The angel part comes from the saving slaves, the avenging comes from his ruthless attitudes.
